The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy
The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy . Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the ± new <U+00bb> mechanical philoso...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4345-8 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction Daniel Garber and Sophie Roux
- 1. The Construction of Historical Categories Remarks on the Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy Daniel Garber
- How Bacon Became Baconian Guido Giglioni
- An Empire Divided: French Natural Philosophy (1670<U+0013>1690) Sophie Roux
- 2. Matter, Motion, Physics and Mathematics Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies Victor Navarro Brotons
- The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy Carla Rita Palmerino
- Beeckman, Descartes and Physico-mathematics Frďřic de Buzon
- Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy: Hydrostatics in Scotland about 1700 Antoni Malet
- 3. Mechanical Philosophy Applied From a Metaphysical to a Scientific Object: Mechanizing Light in Galilean Science Susana Gm̤ez
- Causation in Descartes<U+0019> Les Mťǒres and Late Renaissance Aristotelian Meteorology Craig Martin
- Descartes<U+0019> Healthy Machines and the Human Exception Gideon Manning
- Mechanism and Surgery: Dionis' Anatomy (1690) Jacques Lambert
- Du Clos and the Mechanization of Chemical Philosophy Rm̌i Franckowiak
- Bibliography
- Author Index. .