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Historical and Philosophical Case Studies in Classical Modern Natural Philosophy

edited by William R. Shea.

Dordrecht

Springer Netherlands

1983

(344 pages)

University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Feilds, 20.

Do Historians and Philosophers of Science Share the Same Heritage? --;I --;Conceptual and Technical Aspects of the Galilean Geometrization of the Motion of Heavy Bodies --;The Galilean Geometrization of Motion: Some Historical Considerations --;Measure, Proportion and Mathematical Structure of Galileo's Mechanics --;II --;Space, Geometrical Objects and Infinity: Newton and Descartes on Extension --;Finite and Otherwise. Aristotle and Some Seven- teenth Century Views --;III --;The Ideal of the Mathematization of All Sciences and of 'More Geometrico' in Descartes and Leibniz --;The 'More Geometrico' Pattern in Hypotheses from Descartes to Leibniz --;The Leibnizean Picture of Descartes --;IV --;Force and Inertia: Euler and Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science --;Kant on the Foundations of Science --;Non-mechanistic Ideas in Physics and Philosophy: From Newton to Kant --;V --;V.V. Petrov's Hypothetical Experiment and Electrical Experiments of the 18th Century --;The Ideal of Mathematization in B. Bolzano --;'Die schönste Leistung der allgemeinen Relativitäts- theorie': The Genesis of the Tensor-Geometrical Conception of Gravitation.

These remarks preface two volumes consisting of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.

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edited by William R. Shea.

William R Shea

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