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The language of nature : reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
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- Creator
- Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 346 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780816699506, 9781452951843, 9780816699896, 1452951845, 0816699895, 081669950X
- OCLC
- ocn953510496, ocn928613622
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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