| Description |
346, pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; volume 20
|
|
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 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. |
| Subject |
Physics -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.
|
|
Physics -- Philosophy. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Physics -- Philosophy.
|
|
Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.
|
|
Mathematics -- Philosophy. |
|
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
|
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
|
| Added Author |
Gorham, Geoffrey, 1964- editor.
|
| ISBN |
081669950X hardcover ; alkaline paper |
|
0816699895 paperback ; alkaline paper |
|
9780816699506 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
|
9780816699896 paperback ; alkaline paper |
|
