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...

Table of Contents:

• Ancient mixed mathematics
• Skills and mathematics in the Renaissance Italy
• New forms of natural philosophy and mixed mathematics
• Galilean epistemology
• Post-Galilean epistemology. Experimental physico-mathematica
• Concluding remarks.