ISBN: 9780792310549 - newton’s physics and the conceptual structure of the scientific revolution (boston studies in the philosophy and history of science, 127, band 127) (4 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - I: The Tradition.- One: Aristotelian and Platonic Conceptions of Explanation.- Two: Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature and Theory of Potentiality.- Three: Plato's Concept of the Actual and His Philosophy of Nature.- II: The Logical Revolution.- Four: The Copernican Harmony.- Five: Bacon's Informative Logic.- Six: Informativity and Paradox: Galileo's Conception of the Nature of Physical Reality.- Seven: Descartes' Informative Logic.- III: Newton's Physics and its Critics.- Eight: Actual Infinity and Newton's Calculus.- Nine: Newton's Logic of Space and Time.- Ten: Modern Newtonian Historiography and the Puzzle of Newton's Absolute Space.- Eleven: Absolute Motion and the Nature of Inertial Forces.- Twelve: Locke and the Meaning of 'Empiricism'.- Thirteen: Newton's Invention of the Problem of Induction.- Fourteen: Circularity and Newton's Philosophy of Nature.- Fifteen: Leibniz's Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature.- Sixteen: Berkeley's Aristotelian Critique of Newton's Physics.- Epilogue.- Appendix: Some Basic Ideas in Newton's Physics.- Notes.…

Zustand: New. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 606 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1012. . 1991. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…