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The language of nature : reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the 17th century /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ;
volume 20 |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, and Edward Slowik
- Reading the book of nature : the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of Galileo's mathematical realism / Carla Rita Palmerino
- "The marriage of physics with mathematics" : Francis Bacon on measurement, mathematics, and the construction of a mathematical physics / Dana Jalobeanu
- On the mathematization of free fall : Galileo, Descartes, and a history of misconstrual / Richard T.W. Arthur
- The mathematization of nature in Descartes and the first Cartesians / Roger Ariew
- Laws of nature and the mathematics of motion / Daniel Garber
- Ratios, quotients, and the language of nature / Douglas Jesseph
- Color by numbers : the harmonious palette in early modern painting / Eileen Reeves
- The role of mathematical practitioners and mathematical practice in developing mathematics as the language of nature / Lesley B. Cormack
- Leibniz on order and the notion of substance : mathematizing the sciences of metaphysics and physics / Kurt Smith
- Leibniz's harlequinade : nature, infinity, and the limits of mathematization / Justin E.H. Smith
- The geometrical method as a new standard of truth, based on the mathematization of nature / Ursula Goldenbaum
- Philosophical geometers and geometrical philosophers / Christopher Smeenk.