The language of nature : reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors.
2016
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Title
The language of nature : reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors.
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Description
346, pages ; 23 cm
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Series statement
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; volume 20
Bibliography, etc.
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.
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.
Series
Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 20.
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QC7 .L224 2016