The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy - Softcover

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- List of Contributors.-

Introduction

Daniel Garber and Sophie Roux.-

1. The Construction of Historical Categories

Remarks on the Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy

Daniel Garber.- How Bacon Became Baconian

Guido Giglioni.-

An Empire Divided: French Natural Philosophy (1670-1690)

Sophie Roux.-

2. Matter, Motion, Physics and Mathematics

Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies

Victor Navarro Brotons.-

The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy

Carla Rita Palmerino.-

Beeckman, Descartes and Physico-mathematics

Frédéric de Buzon.-

Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy: Hydrostatics in Scotland about 1700

Antoni Malet.-

3. Mechanical Philosophy Applied

From a Metaphysical to a Scientific Object: Mechanizing Light in Galilean Science

Susana Gómez.-

Causation in Descartes' Les Météores and Late Renaissance Aristotelian Meteorology

Craig Martin.-

Descartes' Healthy Machines and the Human Exception

Gideon Manning.-

Mechanism and Surgery: Dionis' Anatomy (1690)

Jacques Lambert.-

Du Clos and the Mechanization of Chemical Philosophy

Rémi Franckowiak.-

Bibliography.- Author Index.

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