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

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