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Title The language of nature : reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the 17th century / Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors.

Imprint Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ; volume 20
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, and Edward Slowik -- Reading the book of nature : the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of Galileo's mathematical realism / Carla Rita Palmerino -- "The marriage of physics with mathematics" : Francis Bacon on measurement, mathematics, and the construction of a mathematical physics / Dana Jalobeanu -- On the mathematization of free fall : Galileo, Descartes, and a history of misconstrual / Richard T.W. Arthur -- The mathematization of nature in Descartes and the first Cartesians / Roger Ariew -- Laws of nature and the mathematics of motion / Daniel Garber -- Ratios, quotients, and the language of nature / Douglas Jesseph -- Color by numbers : the harmonious palette in early modern painting / Eileen Reeves -- The role of mathematical practitioners and mathematical practice in developing mathematics as the language of nature / Lesley B. Cormack -- Leibniz on order and the notion of substance : mathematizing the sciences of metaphysics and physics / Kurt Smith -- Leibniz's harlequinade : nature, infinity, and the limits of mathematization / Justin E.H. Smith -- The geometrical method as a new standard of truth, based on the mathematization of nature / Ursula Goldenbaum -- Philosophical geometers and geometrical philosophers / Christopher Smeenk.
Note Print version record.
Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.
Physics -- Philosophy.
Physics -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.
Mathématiques -- Philosophie.
Mathématiques -- Philosophie -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Physique -- Philosophie.
Physique -- Philosophie -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
Mathematics -- Philosophy
Physics -- Philosophy
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form History
Added Author Gorham, Geoffrey, 1964- editor
Other Form: Print version: Language of nature. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016] 9780816699506 (DLC) 2015036898 (OCoLC)928613622
ISBN 9781452951843 (electronic bk.)
1452951845 (electronic bk.)
9780816699506 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816699896 (pb ; alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000062516826

 
    
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