The language of nature: reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the 17th century 1st Edition

The language of nature: reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the 17th century 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780816699506,081669950X,9781452951850, 1452951853

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• ISBN-10: 1452951853
• ISBN-13: 9781452951850
• Author: Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, Edward Slowik, C. Kenneth Waters

Galileo’s dictum that the book of nature “is written in the language of mathematics” is emblematic of the accepted view that the scientific revolution hinged on the conceptual and methodological integration of mathematics and natural philosophy. Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, this volume shows that it was a far more complex, contested, and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiography has indicated, and that philosophical controversies about the implications of mathematization cannot be understood in isolation from broader social developments related to the status and practice of mathematics in various commercial, political, and academic institutions.

Table contents:

1. Laws of nature and the mathematics of motion.
2. Leibniz on order and the notion of substance : mathematizing the sciences of metaphysics and physics.
3. Leibniz’s harlequinade : nature, infinity, and the limits of mathematization.
4. On the mathematization of free fall : Galileo, Descartes, and a history of misconstrual.
5. Philosophical geometers and geometrical philosophers.
6. Ratios, quotients, and the language of nature.
7. Reading the book of nature : the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of Galileo’s mathematical realism.
8. The geometrical method as a new standard of truth, based on the mathematization of nature.
9. The marriage of physics with mathematics” : Francis Bacon on measurement, mathematics, and the construction of a mathematical physics.
10. The mathematization of nature in Descartes and the first Cartesians.
11. The role of mathematical practitioners and mathematical practice in developing mathematics as the language of nature.
12. Philosophical Geometers and Geometrical Philosophers.

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