Discipline and Experience - The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNote on Citations and TranslationsIntroduction: The Measure of All Things1: Induction in Early-Modern Europe2: Experience and Jesuit Mathematical Science: The Practical Importance of Methodology3: Expertise, Novel Claims, and Experimental Events4: Apostolic Succession, Astronomical Knowledge, and Scientific Traditions5: The Uses of Experience6: Art, Nature, Metaphor: The Growth of Physico-Mathematics7: Pascal's Void, Natural Philosophers, and Mathematical Experience8: Barrow, Newton, and Constructivist ExperimentConclusion: A Mathematical Natural Philosophy?BibliographyIndex

Summary

This study examines 17th-century mathematical sciences - astronomy, optics and mechanics - not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle and the Jesuits are discussed.

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• Authors: Dear, Peter Dear
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.1995
• EAN: 9780226139449
• ISBN: 978-0-226-13944-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 154 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 482 g
• Series: Science & Its Conceptual Found; Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S.; Science & Its Conceptual Found; Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF (CHUP); Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF; Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)