Discipline and Experience : The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution
by
Peter Dear
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
ISBN-10
0226139433
ISBN-13
9780226139432
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 25th, 1995
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
652 grams
Dimensions
2.40 x 1.60 x 0.30 cms
Product Classification:
History of ideasMathematicsHistory of science
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This study examines 17th-century mathematical sciences - astronomy, optics and mechanics - not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle and the Jesuits are discussed.
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