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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

INDEX OF NAMES

Aguilon, François, 20, 190–92, 196

Aristotle, 2, 36, 52, 87–88, 100, 106n17, 131n23, 181, 182, 257, 265, 282, 309, 315

Arnauld, Antoine, 123, 282

Bacon, Francis, 6, 12, 17, 51–56, 59–69, 70nn1–2, 70n4, 71n6, 72n10, 72nn14–17, 73n18, 73n20, 74n34, 75nn36–39, 76n41, 76n43, 76n49, 113, 129n7, 185

Barrow, Isaac, 16, 19, 22, 45–47, 161, 164, 168–73, 175n14, 309–10, 315–16, 328–29, 334n7, 335n24

Beeckman, Isaac, 87, 95, 98, 101–2, 139

Bellini, Lorenzo, 251–52

Benedetti, Giovanni Battista, 86, 186

Berkeley, George, 32

Boyle, Robert, 11, 13, 220–21

Bradwardine, Thomas, 89

Burtt, E. A., 9–10, 86–87, 112, 115–16, 118–19, 128n2, 251

Charrak, André, 88–89, 96

Claggett, Marshall, 99

Clarke, Samuel, 122, 295

Cohen, H. Floris, 24n10, 114

Conway, Anne, 264–65

Da Vinci, Leonardo, 86–87

De Bergerac, Cyrano, 254–55, 270

De Boodt, Anselm, 188–89, 199n17

Dee, John, 56, 74n28, 214

Descartes, René, 5–6, 11, 18, 82, 94–98, 101, 103, 109n38, 115–28, 129n15, 130n16, 130nn18–19, 131nn22–23, 135–40, 142, 145, 148–49, 150–52, 155n14, 157n26, 160, 250–54, 256–57, 275, 285–88, 302, 313, 321, 329–30

Desgabet, Robert, 131n20

Digges, Thomas, 58, 74nn29–30

Dijksterhuis, Eduard Jan, 11–12, 112–13, 115–19, 129n7, 251

Drake, Stillman, 83

Du Roure, Jacques, 122, 124–25, 127, 132

Euclid, 152, 161, 163–64, 167–68, 181, 206

Fabry, Honoré, 87–88, 102

Ferdinando, Epiphanio, 190

Forcadel, Pierre, 57

Frisi, Paolo, 106n19

Galilei, Galileo, 3–4, 6–10, 13, 16–17, 23n1, 29–47, 81–94, 98, 100–103, 106n19, 114–15, 134–35, 140–46, 155n13, 156n18, 160, 174n2, 189–90, 192–93, 200n19, 221n12, 275, 277, 285, 288, 299n13, 318

Galilei, Vincenzo, 186, 194

Gassendi, Pierre, 46

Gilbert, William, 211, 216

Giusti, Enrico, 88, 106n19

Guidi, Guido, 183, 192

Halley, Edmond, 309, 318, 334n13

Harriot, Thomas, 214, 217–20, 223n33

Heytesbury, William, 99

Hobbes, Thomas, 6, 18–19, 135, 146–53, 156nn21–22, 275–76, 280–83, 290, 301n23, 309–10, 334n6

Hood, Thomas, 57, 211–12, 220

Husserl, Edmund, 9, 128n4

Huygens, Christian, 5, 82, 322–23

Jullien, Vincent, 88–89, 96

Kant, Immanuel, 8, 253, 278, 295, 300nn18–19

Kepler, Johannes, 3, 47n1, 319–21, 325, 335n19

Koyré, Alexander, 10–11, 13, 20, 20n3, 24n5, 84, 86–89, 93, 100, 112–14, 128n4, 129n6, 129n11, 206, 251

Kuhn, Thomas, 12, 72n15, 82–83, 104

Le Grand, Antoine, 121–23, 125–26

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 21–22, 82, 117, 229–45, 247n14, 248n32, 251–70, 279–81, 288–95

Locke, John, 35–36, 38, 279, 295

Malaspina, Celio, 178–81, 185, 190, 198

Mersenne, Marin, 101

Mocenigo, Filippo, 186–89

More, Henry, 257, 268, 276, 278, 292

Nachtomy, Ohad, 257, 262–63, 268

Newton, Isaac, 5, 12–13, 19, 22, 82, 98, 160, 173–74, 206, 220–21, 295, 308–33

Oresme, Nicolas, 92

Pascal, Blaise, 7, 280, 282

Pastorino, Cesare, 51–52

Pythagoras, 180, 186, 197–98; Pythagorean Ratios, 181–83, 185–86, 190–93

Ramus, Peter, 56–57, 206, 212

Recorde, Robert, 208–9, 211

Rees, Graham, 51–52, 71n6

Régis, Pierre–Sylvain, 121–23, 125, 127, 131n21, 132n24

Renn, Jürgen, 88, 102, 107n21, 107n24

Rohault, Jacques, 121–22, 124–25

Saville, Henry, 206

Scarmiglioni, Guido Antonio, 188–89

Spinoza, Baruch, 5–6, 274–77, 281, 283–84, 287–88, 292, 302n29

Stensen, Neils, 251, 252, 259

Stevin, Simon, 210–11, 215

Swineshead, Richard, 98–99

Varron, Michel, 86, 92–94, 98

Velázquez, Diego, 15–19

Wallis, John, 19, 161, 165–72

Werro, Sébastien, 183–85, 187

Wolff, Christian, 283–85, 300n18

Wren, Christopher, 318

Wright, Edward, 211, 214–20, 222n24

Zarlino, Gioseffo, 186–88

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