LEADER 04038nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910816923703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-05816-2 010 $a9786613058164 010 $a0-226-13952-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226139524 035 $a(CKB)2550000000031730 035 $a(EBL)660538 035 $a(OCoLC)705538180 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468479 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11331647 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468479 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10506874 035 $a(PQKB)10264667 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC660538 035 $a(DE-B1597)535489 035 $a(OCoLC)1135585576 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226139524 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL660538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10451111 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305816 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000031730 100 $a19950314d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDiscipline & experience $ethe mathematical way in the scientific revolution /$fPeter Dear 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 225 1 $aScience and its conceptual foundations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-13944-1 311 $a0-226-13943-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 251-279) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tFIGURES -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tNOTE ON CITATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS -- $tINTRODUCTION: THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS -- $t1. INDUCTION IN EARLYMODERN EUROPE -- $t2. EXPERIENCE AND JESUIT MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE: THE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF METHODOLOGY -- $t3. EXPERTISE, NOVEL CLAIMS, AND EXPERIMENTAL EVENTS -- $t4. APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE, AND SCIENTIFIC TRADITIONS -- $t5. THE USES OF EXPERIENCE -- $t6.ART, NATURE, METAPHOR; THE GROWTH OF PHYSICOMATHEMATICS -- $t7. PASCAL'S VOID, NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS, AND MATHEMATICAL EXPERIENCE -- $t8. BARROW, NEWTON, AND CONSTRUCTIVIST EXPERIMENT -- $tCONCLUSION: A MATHEMATICAL NATURAL PHILOSOPHY? -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aAlthough the Scientific Revolution has long been regarded as the beginning of modern science, there has been little consensus about its true character. While the application of mathematics to the study of the natural world has always been recognized as an important factor, the role of experiment has been less clearly understood. Peter Dear investigates the nature of the change that occurred during this period, focusing particular attention on evolving notions of experience and how these developed into the experimental work that is at the center of modern science. He examines seventeenth-century mathematical sciences-astronomy, optics, and mechanics-not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Dear illuminates how mathematicians and natural philosophers of the period-Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle, and the Jesuits-used experience in their argumentation, and how and why these approaches changed over the course of a century. Drawing on mathematical texts and works of natural philosophy from all over Europe, he describes a process of change that was gradual, halting, sometimes contradictory-far from the sharp break with intellectual tradition implied by the term "revolution." 410 0$aScience and its conceptual foundations. 517 3 $aDiscipline and experience 606 $aMathematics$zEurope$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aScience$zEurope$xHistory$y17th century 615 0$aMathematics$xHistory 615 0$aScience$xHistory 676 $a501 686 $aCC 3400$2rvk 700 $aDear$b Peter$f1958-$0887026 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816923703321 996 $aDiscipline & experience$94037927 997 $aUNINA