Mechanism and Materialism.

Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action-mechanism and materialism. Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schofield, Robert E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
Temas:
Physics > Philosophy.
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Materialism.
Physique > Philosophie.
Mécanisme (Philosophie)
Matérialisme.
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
SCIENCE > Energy.
SCIENCE > Mechanics > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER ONE. Newton's Legacy
  • PART I. MECHANISM AND DYNAMIC CORPUSCULARITY 1687-1740
  • CHAPTER TWO. Diffusion of a Newtonian Creed
  • CHAPTER THREE. Elaboration of a Theory
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Experimental Newtonianism
  • PART IX. AETHER AND MATERIALISM. 1740-1789
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Second Thoughts and the New Revelation
  • CHAPTER SIX. Newtonian Pagans and Heretics
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Early Continental Interactions
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Imponderable Fluids
  • CHAPTER NINE. Vital Physiology and Elementary Chemistry
  • PART III. NEO-MECHANISM. 1760-1815
  • CHAPTER TEN. Forces, Fluid Dynamics, and Fields
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Interregnum, 1789-1815
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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