Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Garau, Rodolfo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 332
• Subjects: History.; Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; History of Science.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.

This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements - epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual. With contributions ranging from fields as diverse as the histories of phy...