LEADER 03345nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910438346203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-64079-1 010 $a94-007-4345-9 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-4345-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000283556 035 $a(EBL)973790 035 $a(OCoLC)812289655 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000767091 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11414653 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000767091 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10740419 035 $a(PQKB)11407679 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-007-4345-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC973790 035 $a(PPN)168337746 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000283556 100 $a20130108d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe mechanization of natural philosophy /$fDaniel Garber, Sophie Roux, editors 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aDordrecht $cSpringer$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (348 p.) 225 0$aBoston studies in the philosophy of science,$x0068-0346 ;$vv. 300 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-007-9878-4 311 $a94-007-4344-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $apt. I. The construction of historical categories -- pt. II. Matter, motion, physics and mathematics -- pt. III. Mechanical philosophy applied. 330 $aThe Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy . Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254). 410 0$aBoston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,$x0068-0346 ;$v300 606 $aPhysics 615 0$aPhysics. 676 $a509.03 701 $aGarber$b Daniel$0473029 701 $aRoux$b Sophie$0895384 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438346203321 996 $aThe mechanization of natural philosophy$94196306 997 $aUNINA