The Path to Post-Galilean Epistemology Reinterpreting the Birth of Modern Science /

• Main Author: Capecchi, Danilo (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 34
• Subjects: Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Mathematics.; History.; Epistemology.; Physics.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with the emergence of mechanistic philosophy, the new mixed mathematics, and the establishment of the experimental approach. It is argued that modern Europ...