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Title The language of nature : reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the 17th century / Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; volume 20
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; volume 20.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.
History.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Physics -- Philosophy.
Physics -- Philosophy.
Physics -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Gorham, Geoffrey, 1964- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Language of nature. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016] 9780816699506 (DLC) 2015036898 (OCoLC)928613622
ISBN 9781452951843 (electronic book)
1452951845 (electronic book)
9780816699506 (hc ; alkaline paper)
9780816699896 (pb ; alkaline paper)