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" The language of nature : "
Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors
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660054
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The language of nature : : reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century /\ Geoffrey Gorham [and three others], editors
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Minnesota studies in the philosophy of science ;; volume 20
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346 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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9780816699506
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: 081669950X
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: 9780816699896
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: 0816699895
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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Physics-- Philosophy-- History-- 17th century
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Physics-- Philosophy
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Mathematics-- Philosophy-- History-- 17th century
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Mathematics-- Philosophy
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QC7.L224 2016
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QC7.L224 2016
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Gorham, Geoffrey,1964-
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