Observations upon experimental philosophy / / Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle ; edited by Eileen O'Neill

• Autore: Newcastle Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, <1624?-1674.>
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xlvii, 287 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy of nature
• Altri autori: O'NeillEileen
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Cavendish's works -- Editions and translations of other works frequently cited -- Introduction -- The publications in natural philosophy -- The critical reception of these works -- Cavendish's system of nature -- (1) Materialism -- (2) Complete mixture -- (3) Pan-organicism and pan-psychism -- (4) Continuum theory of matter -- (5) Non-mechanical natural change -- The significance of the text -- Chronology -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- The Preface to the Ensuing Treatise -- To the Reader -- An Argumental Discourse -- The Table of All the Principal Subjects Contained and Discoursed of in This Book -- I Observations upon Experimental Philosophy -- II Further Observations upon Experimental Philosophy -- Reflecting Withal, upon Some Principal Subjects in Contemplative… -- III Observations upon the Opinions of Some Ancient Philosophers -- I Observations upon Experimental Philosophy -- I Of Human Sense and Perception -- II Of Art, and Experimental Philosophy -- III Of Micrography, and of Magnifying and Multiplying Glasses -- IV Of the Production of Fire by a Flint and Steel -- V Of Pores -- VI Of the ''Effluviums'' of the Loadstone -- VII Of the Stings of Nettles and Bees -- VIII Of the Beard of a Wild Oat -- IX Of the Eyes of Flies -- X Of a Butterfly -- XI Of the Walking Motions of Flies, and Other Creatures -- [XII] Whether It Be Possible to Make Man and Other Animal Creatures that Naturally Have No Wings, Fly as Birds Do -- XIII Of Snails and Leeches: And, Whether All Animals Have Blood -- XIV Of Natural Productions -- XV Of the Seeds of Vegetables -- XVI Of the Providence of Nature, and of Some Opinions Concerning Motion -- XVII Descartes' Opinion of Motion, Examined -- XVIII Of the Blackness of a Charcoal -- and of Light. ; XIX Of the Pores of a Charcoal -- and of Emptiness -- XX Of Colours -- XXI Whether an Idea have a Colour, and of the Idea of a Spirit -- XXII Of Wood Petrified -- XXIII Of the Nature of Water -- XXIV Of Salt -- and of Sea or Salt Water -- XXV Of the Motions of Heat and Cold -- XXVI Of the Measures, Degrees, and Different Sorts of Heat and Cold -- XXVII Of Congelation and Freezing -- XXVIII Of Thawing or Dissolving of Frozen Bodies -- XXIX Several Questions Resolved Concerning Cold, and Frozen Bodies -- XXX Of Contraction and Dilatation -- XXXI Of the Parts of Nature, and of Atoms -- XXXII Of the Celestial Parts of This World -- and Whether They Be Alterable -- XXXIII Of the Substance of the Sun, and of Fire -- XXXIV Of Telescopes -- XXXV Of Knowledge and Perception in General -- XXXVI Of the Different Perceptions of Sense and Reason -- XXXVII Several Questions and Answers Concerning Knowledge and Perception -- II Further Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, Reflecting withal upon some Principal Subjects in Contemplative… -- I Ancient Learning Ought Not to be Exploded, nor the Experimental Part of Philosophy Preferred Before the Speculative -- II Whether Artificial Effects May Be Called Natural, and in What Sense -- III Of Natural Matter and Motion -- IV Nature Cannot Be Known by Any of Her Parts -- V Art Cannot Introduce New Forms in Nature -- VI Whether There Be Any Prime or Principal Figure in Nature -- and of the True Principles of Nature -- VII Whether Nature be self-moving -- VIII Of Animal Spirits -- IX Of the Doctrine of the Sceptics concerning the Knowledge of Nature -- X Of Natural Sense and Reason -- XI Of a General Knowledge and Worship of God, Given Him by all Natural Creatures -- XII Of a Particular Worship of God, Given Him by Those That Are His Chosen and Elect People -- XIII Of the Knowledge of Man. ; XIV A Natural Philosopher Cannot Be an Atheist -- XV Of the Rational Soul of Man -- XVI Whether Animal Parts Separated from their Bodies, Have Life -- XVII Of the Spleen -- XVIII Of Anatomy -- XIX Of Preserving the Figures of Animal Creatures -- XX Of Chemistry, and Chemical Principles -- XXI Of the Universal Medicine, and of Diseases -- XXII Of Outward Remedies -- XXIII Of Several Sorts of Drink and Meat -- XXIV Of Fermentation -- XXV Of the Plague -- XXVI Of Respiration -- III Observations upon the Opinions of Some Ancient Philosophers -- I Upon the Principles of Thales -- II Some Few Observations on Plato's Doctrine -- III Upon the Doctrine of Pythagoras -- IV Of Epicurus His Principles of Philosophy -- V On Aristotle's Philosophical Principles -- VI Of Skepticism, and Some Other Sects of the Ancients -- Glossary -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in a 2001 edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the Aristotelianism which was taught in the universities in the seventeenth century, and the picture of nature as a grand machine which was propounded by Hobbes, Descartes and members of the Royal Society of London, such as Boyle. She also rejects the views of nature which make reference to immaterial spirits. Instead she develops an original system of organicist materialism, and draws on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy. Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of women's contributions to philosophy and science.
• Titolo autorizzato: Observations upon experimental philosophy
• ISBN: 1-107-11950-2; 0-511-01365-5; 1-280-42122-3; 1-139-16450-3; 0-511-17472-1; 0-511-15474-7; 0-511-32849-4; 0-511-04964-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814951103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy.