04033nam 2200673Ia 450 991045691640332120200520144314.01-283-05816-297866130581640-226-13952-210.7208/9780226139524(CKB)2550000000031730(EBL)660538(OCoLC)705538180(SSID)ssj0000468479(PQKBManifestationID)11331647(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468479(PQKBWorkID)10506874(PQKB)10264667(MiAaPQ)EBC660538(DE-B1597)535489(OCoLC)1135585576(DE-B1597)9780226139524(Au-PeEL)EBL660538(CaPaEBR)ebr10451111(CaONFJC)MIL305816(EXLCZ)99255000000003173019950314d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDiscipline & experience[electronic resource] the mathematical way in the scientific revolution /Peter DearChicago University of Chicago Press19951 online resource (306 p.)Science and its conceptual foundationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-13944-1 0-226-13943-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-279) and index.Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON CITATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS -- 1. INDUCTION IN EARLYMODERN EUROPE -- 2. EXPERIENCE AND JESUIT MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE: THE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF METHODOLOGY -- 3. EXPERTISE, NOVEL CLAIMS, AND EXPERIMENTAL EVENTS -- 4. APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE, AND SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS -- 5. THE USES OF EXPERIENCE -- 6.ART, NATURE, METAPHOR; THE GROWTH OF PHYSICOMATHEMATICS -- 7. PASCAL'S VOID, NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS, AND MATHEMATICAL EXPERIENCE -- 8. BARROW, NEWTON, AND CONSTRUCTIVIST EXPERIMENT -- CONCLUSION: A MATHEMATICAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHY? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEXAlthough 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 been less clearly understood. Peter Dear investigates the nature of the change that occurred during this period, focusing particular attention on evolving notions of experience and how these developed into the experimental work that is at the center of modern science. He examines seventeenth-century mathematical sciences-astronomy, optics, and mechanics-not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Dear illuminates how mathematicians and natural philosophers of the period-Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle, and the Jesuits-used experience in their argumentation, and how and why these approaches changed over the course of a century. Drawing on mathematical texts and works of natural philosophy from all over Europe, he describes a process of change that was gradual, halting, sometimes contradictory-far from the sharp break with intellectual tradition implied by the term "revolution."Science and its conceptual foundations.MathematicsEuropeHistory17th centuryScienceEuropeHistory17th centuryElectronic books.MathematicsHistoryScienceHistory501CC 3400rvkDear Peter1958-887026MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456916403321Discipline & experience2088707UNINA