01552nam 2200433 450 00000136820070503173400.0--------d1947----km-y0itay0103----baengUS<<A>> Saintsbury miscellanyselections from his essays and scrap bookswith personal portraits by Sir Herbert Grierson and others and a biographicol memoir by A. Blyth Webster1 0004847New YorkOxford University Press1947X,246 p.22 cm.Letteratura ingleseSaggi824.89Grierson,HerbertWebster,A. BlythITUniversità della Basilicata - B.I.A.RICAunimarc000001368Saintsbury miscellany70589UNIBASMONLETMONOGRLETTERENANNI0119990714BAS011133DILEO2019990726BAS011642DILEO2019990726BAS011642DILEO0120000807BAS01124820000920BAS01182820001010BAS01163120050601BAS011752batch0120050718BAS01104720050718BAS01110620050718BAS01113620050718BAS011150BATCH0020070503BAS011734BAS01BAS01BOOKBASA1Polo Storico-UmanisticoFAAFondo anglo-americanoFM/2143FM/21432143L21431999071404Prestabile Didattica04181nam 2200745Ia 450 991096568710332120200520144314.09786613058164978128305816212830581629780226139524022613952210.7208/9780226139524(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(Perlego)1853555(EXLCZ)99255000000003173019950314d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDiscipline & experience the mathematical way in the scientific revolution /Peter Dear1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press19951 online resource (306 p.)Science and its conceptual foundationsDescription based upon print version of record.9780226139449 0226139441 9780226139432 0226139433 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.Discipline and experienceMathematicsEuropeHistory17th centuryScienceEuropeHistory17th centuryMathematicsHistoryScienceHistory501CC 3400rvkDear Peter1958-887026MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965687103321Discipline & experience4364857UNINA