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Peter Dear

Discipline and Experience - The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution

English · Hardback

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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.

Product details

Authors	Peter Dear
Publisher	University Of Chicago Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	25.11.1995

EAN	9780226139432
ISBN	978-0-226-13943-2
No. of pages	304
Dimensions	16 mm x 24 mm x 3 mm
Weight	652 g
Series	Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
Subject	Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)

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