Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution

• Main Author: Strazzoni, Andrea (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 51
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Science-Philosophy.; Science-History.; History of Philosophy.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instrumental in founding the first experimental cabinet...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Philosophical and Scientific Background of De Volder
• 2. De Volder's Methodological and Epistemic Considerations
• 3. De Volders's Natural-Philosophical Theories
• 4. De Volder on Metaphysics
• 5. Conclusion
• 6. Commented Edition of De Volder's Experimental Lectures and Disputations
• 7. Bibliography.