The Language of Nature

Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

by Geoffrey GorhamBenjamin HillEdward SlowikC. Kenneth Waters

Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, this volume shows that it was a far more complex, contested, and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiography has indicated.

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    1
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    University of Minnesota Press
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    Minneapolis, MN
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    Copyright 2016 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
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  • series number
    20
  • series title
    Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
  • version
    1.0
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