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Discipline and Experience : the Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution.
Although the Scientific Revolution has long been regarded as the beginning of modern science, there has been little consensus about its true character. While the application of mathematics to the study of the natural world has always been recognized as an important factor, the role of experiment has...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Science & Its Conceptual Foundations.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Citations and Translations; Introduction: The Measure of All Things; One Induction in Early-Modern Europe; Two Experience and Jesuit Mathematical Science: The Practical Importance of Methodology; Three Expertise, Novel Claims, and Experimental Events; Four Apostolic Succession, Astronomical Knowledge, and Scientific Traditions; Five The Uses of Experience; Six Art, Nature, Metaphor: The Growth of Physico-Mathematics; Seven Pascal's Void, Natural Philosophers, and Mathematical Experience; Eight Barrow, Newton, and Constructivist Experiment.