The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Anstey, Peter R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Schuster, John A. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Σειρά: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 19
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Physics.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History, general.

The seventeenth century marked a critical phase in the emergence of modern science. But we misunderstand this process, if we assume that seventeenth-century modes of natural inquiry were identical to the highly specialised, professionalised and ever proliferating family of modern sciences practised...

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• The Onset of the Scientific Revolution
• ‘Waterworld’: Descartes’ Vortical Celestial Mechanics
• Circular Argument
• From Mechanics to Mechanism
• The Autonomy of Natural Philosophy
• Physico-Theology and the Mixed Sciences
• The Saturn Problem
• Experimental Versus Speculative Natural Philosophy.