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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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Table of Contents

The Language of Nature

  • Cover Page
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Reading the Book of Nature: The Ontological and Epistemological Underpinnings of Galileo’s Mathematical Realism
  • 2. “The Marriage of Physics with Mathematics”: Francis Bacon on Measurement, Mathematics, and the Construction of a Mathematical Physics
  • 3. On the Mathematization of Free Fall: Galileo, Descartes, and a History of Misconstrual
  • 4. The Mathematization of Nature in Descartes and the First Cartesians
  • 5. Laws of Nature and the Mathematics of Motion
  • 6. Ratios, Quotients, and the Language of Nature
  • 7. Color by Numbers: The Harmonious Palette in Early Modern Painting
  • 8. The Role of Mathematical Practitioners and Mathematical Practice in Developing Mathematics as the Language of Nature
  • 9. Leibniz on Order, Harmony, and the Notion of Substance: Mathematizing the Sciences of Metaphysics and Physics
  • 10. Leibniz’s Harlequinade: Nature, Infinity, and the Limits of Mathematization
  • 11. The Geometrical Method as a New Standard of Truth, Based on the Mathematization of Nature
  • 12. Philosophical Geometers and Geometrical Philosophers
  • Contributors
  • Index

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  • edition
    1
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • restrictions
    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
  • rights
    Copyright 2016 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • rights holder
    Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • rights territory
    World
  • series number
    20
  • series title
    Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
  • version
    1.0
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452964676
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