The Language of Nature by Gorham, Hill (Mathematization of Natural Philosophy)

Description: The Language of Nature Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 20by Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, Edward Slowik, C. Kenneth Waters ISBN-13: 9780816699896 ISBN-10: 0816699895 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Binding: Paperback Publication Year: 2016 Edition: First Condition: Very Good – clean pages About: refer to image(s) Contents: Introduction Reading the book of nature : the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of Galileo's mathematical realism The marriage of physics with mathematics: Francis Bacon on measurement, mathematics, and the construction of a mathematical physics On the mathematization of free fall : Galileo, Descartes, and a history of misconstrual The mathematization of nature in Descartes and the first Cartesians Laws of nature and the mathematics of motion Ratios, quotients, and the language of nature Color by numbers : the harmonious palette in early modern painting The role of mathematical practitioners and mathematical practice in developing mathematics as the language of nature Leibniz on order and the notion of substance : mathematizing the sciences of metaphysics and physics Leibniz's harlequinade : nature, infinity, and the limits of mathematization The geometrical method as a new standard of truth, based on the mathematization of nature Philosophical geometers and geometrical philosophers mySku 6927

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