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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Anstey, Peter R. (Editor), Schuster, John A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 19
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.