Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution write by Walter Roy Laird. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy
The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy write by Sophie Roux. This book was released on 2012-09-26. The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy . Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254).
The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century
The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century write by Peter R. Anstey. This book was released on 2006-06-28. The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise of the natural sciences. The exponential expansion of scientific knowledge and the accompanying technology that so impact on our daily lives are truly remarkable. But what is often taken for granted is the enviable epistemic-credit rating of scientific knowledge: science is authoritative, science inspires confidence, science is right. Yet it has not always been so. In the seventeenth century the situation was markedly different: competing sources of authority, shifting disciplinary boundaries, emerging modes of experimental practice and methodological reflection were some of the constituents in a quite different mélange in which knowledge of nature was by no means p- eminent. It was the desire to probe the underlying causes of the shift from the early modern ‘nature-knowledge’ to modern science that was one of the stimuli for the ‘Origins of Modernity: Early Modern Thought 1543–1789’ conference held in Sydney in July 2002. How and why did modern science emerge from its early modern roots to the dominant position which it enjoys in today’s post-modern world? Under the auspices of the International Society for Intellectual History, The University of New South Wales and The University of Sydney, a group of historians and philosophers of science gathered to discuss this issue. However, it soon became clear that a prior question needed to be settled first: the question as to the precise nature of the quest for knowledge of the natural realm in the seventeenth century.
The Construction of Modern Science
The Construction of Modern Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Construction of Modern Science write by Richard S. Westfall. This book was released on 1977. The Construction of Modern Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and the mechanical philosophy during the 'scientific revolution'.
Real, Mechanical, Experimental
Real, Mechanical, Experimental - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Real, Mechanical, Experimental write by Francesco G. Sacco. This book was released on 2020. Real, Mechanical, Experimental available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society. From celestial mechanics to microscopy, from optics to geology and biology, Hooke's contributions to the Scientific Revolution proved decisive. Focusing separately on partial aspects of Hooke's works, scholars have hitherto failed to see the unifying idea of the natural philosophy underlying them. Some of his unpublished papers have passed almost unnoticed. Hooke pursued the foundation of a real, mechanical and experimental philosophy, and this book is an attempt to reconstruct it. The book includes a selection of Hooke's unpublished papers. Readers will discover a study of the new science through the works of one of the most known protagonists. Challenging the current views on the scientific life of restoration England, this book sheds new light on the circulation of Baconian ideals and the mechanical philosophy in the early Royal Society. This book is a must-read to anybody interested in Hooke, early modern science or Restoration history.
