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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
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