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The language of nature :

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081669950X

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0816699895

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9780816699506

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9780816699896

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The language of nature :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century /

First Statement of Responsibility

Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

346 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Series Title

Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ;

Volume Designation

volume 20

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

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

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Mathematics-- Philosophy

Mathematics-- Philosophy-- History-- 17th century

Physics-- Philosophy

Physics-- Philosophy-- History-- 17th century

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Book number

Gorham, Geoffrey,1964-

Date of Transaction

20160801110003.0

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