Language of Nature - Reassessing Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth

Klappentext Geoffrey Gorham is associate professor of philosophy at Macalester College.Benjamin Hill is associate professor of philosophy at University of Western Ontario.Edward Slowik is associate professor of philosophy at Winona State University.C. Kenneth Waters is professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary. Zusammenfassung Although the mathematization of nature is adistinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in theseventeenth century! this volume shows that it was a far more complex!contested! and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiographyhas indicated.

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• Authors: Geoffrey Hill Gorham
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Gorham (Editor), Benjamin Hill (Editor), Edward Slowik (Editor), C. Kenneth Waters (Editor), C.Kenneth Waters (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9780816699506
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9950-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philo; Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)