The Language of Nature [[electronic resource] ] : Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century / / Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors
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The Language of Nature [[electronic resource] ] : Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century / / Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (361 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 530.15 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mathematics - Philosophy |
| Mathematics - Philosophy - History - 17th century | |
| Physics - Philosophy | |
| Physics - Philosophy - History - 17th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | GorhamGeoffrey <1964-> |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction / Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, and Edward Slowik -- Reading the book of nature : the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of Galileo's mathematical realism / Carla Rita Palmerino -- "The marriage of physics with mathematics" : Francis Bacon on measurement, mathematics, and the construction of a mathematical physics / Dana Jalobeanu -- On the mathematization of free fall : Galileo, Descartes, and a history of misconstrual / Richard T.W. Arthur -- The mathematization of nature in Descartes and the first Cartesians / Roger Ariew -- Laws of nature and the mathematics of motion / Daniel Garber -- Ratios, quotients, and the language of nature / Douglas Jesseph -- Color by numbers : the harmonious palette in early modern painting / Eileen Reeves -- The role of mathematical practitioners and mathematical practice in developing mathematics as the language of nature / Lesley B. Cormack -- Leibniz on order and the notion of substance : mathematizing the sciences of metaphysics and physics / Kurt Smith -- Leibniz's harlequinade : nature, infinity, and the limits of mathematization / Justin E.H. Smith -- The geometrical method as a new standard of truth, based on the mathematization of nature / Ursula Goldenbaum -- Philosophical geometers and geometrical philosophers / Christopher Smeenk. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Language of Nature |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-5184-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910389554403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; ; 20.