The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy

• Main Author: Roux, Sophie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: GARBER, DAN (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 282
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Biology > Philosophy.; Philosophy of nature.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophy of Biology.; History of Philosophy.; Philosophy of Nature.

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...