Discipline & experience [[electronic resource] ] : the mathematical way in the scientific revolution / / Peter Dear |
Autore | Dear Peter <1958-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Collana | Science and its conceptual foundations |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics - Europe - History - 17th century
Science - Europe - History - 17th century |
Soggetto non controllato | science, scientific revolution, math, mathematics, modern, natural world, experience, 17th century, astronomy, optics, mechanics, philosophy, history, historical, marin mersenne, rene descartes, blaise pascal, sir isaac newton, early-modern europe, mythology, expertise, experimental, traditions, physico-mathematics, constructivist experiment |
ISBN |
1-283-05816-2
9786613058164 0-226-13952-2 |
Classificazione | CC 3400 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781298203321 |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995 | ||
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Discipline & experience : the mathematical way in the scientific revolution / / Peter Dear |
Autore | Dear Peter <1958-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Collana | Science and its conceptual foundations |
Soggetto topico |
Mathematics - Europe - History - 17th century
Science - Europe - History - 17th century |
Soggetto non controllato | science, scientific revolution, math, mathematics, modern, natural world, experience, 17th century, astronomy, optics, mechanics, philosophy, history, historical, marin mersenne, rene descartes, blaise pascal, sir isaac newton, early-modern europe, mythology, expertise, experimental, traditions, physico-mathematics, constructivist experiment |
ISBN |
1-283-05816-2
9786613058164 0-226-13952-2 |
Classificazione | CC 3400 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816923703321 |
Dear Peter <1958->
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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