The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy

The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy . Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces his...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Roux, Sophie (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: GARBER, DAN (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Σειρά:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 282
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  •   Preface
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction Daniel Garber and Sophie Roux
  • 1. The Construction of Historical Categories Remarks on the Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy Daniel Garber
  • How Bacon Became Baconian Guido Giglioni
  • An Empire Divided: French Natural Philosophy (1670–1690) Sophie Roux
  • 2. Matter, Motion, Physics and Mathematics Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies Victor Navarro Brotons
  • The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy Carla Rita Palmerino
  • Beeckman, Descartes and Physico-mathematics Frédéric de Buzon
  • Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy: Hydrostatics in Scotland about 1700 Antoni Malet
  • 3. Mechanical Philosophy Applied From a Metaphysical to a Scientific Object: Mechanizing Light in Galilean Science Susana Gómez
  • Causation in Descartes’ Les Météores and Late Renaissance Aristotelian Meteorology Craig Martin
  • Descartes’ Healthy Machines and the Human Exception Gideon Manning
  • Mechanism and Surgery: Dionis' Anatomy (1690) Jacques Lambert
  • Du Clos and the Mechanization of Chemical Philosophy Rémi Franckowiak
  • Bibliography
  • Author Index.    .