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The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy /

The seventeenth century marked a critical phase in the emergence of modern science. But we misunderstand this process, if we assume that seventeenth-century modes of natural inquiry were identical to the highly specialised, professionalised and ever proliferating family of modern sciences practised...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Anstey, Peter R. (Editor ), Schuster, John A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
Colección:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 19
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Onset of the Scientific Revolution
  • 'Waterworld': Descartes' Vortical Celestial Mechanics
  • Circular Argument
  • From Mechanics to Mechanism
  • The Autonomy of Natural Philosophy
  • Physico-Theology and the Mixed Sciences
  • The Saturn Problem
  • Experimental Versus Speculative Natural Philosophy.