Discipline and Experience: Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (Science & Its Conceptual Foundations)

by PeterDear (Author)

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  1995

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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.