The Architecture of Matter: Galileo to Kant

by ThomasHolden (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $179.65

  Are the parts of material bodies actual or potential entities? Do all material bodies resolve to actual first parts? Presenting a study of the theories of structure and internal architecture of matter in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this work offers a synthesis of these discussions and its own interpretation of the debate.