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Discipline & Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution

Peter Dear

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Description:Although the Scientific Revolution has long been regarded as the beginning of modern science, there has been little consensus about its true character. While the application of mathematics to the study of the natural world has always been recognized as an important factor, the role of experiment has been less clearly understood. Peter Dear investigates the nature of the change that occurred during this period, focusing particular attention on evolving notions of experience and how these developed into the experimental work that is at the center of modern science. He examines seventeenth-century mathematical sciencesOCoastronomy, optics, and mechanicsOConot as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Dear illuminates how mathematicians and natural philosophers of the periodOCoMersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle, and the JesuitsOCoused experience in their argumentation, and how and why these approaches changed over the course of a century. Drawing on mathematical texts and works of natural philosophy from all over Europe, he describes a process of change that was gradual, halting, sometimes contradictoryOCofar from the sharp break with intellectual tradition implied by the term revolution."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Discipline & Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution. To get started finding Discipline & Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 306

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0226139522

Description: Although the Scientific Revolution has long been regarded as the beginning of modern science, there has been little consensus about its true character. While the application of mathematics to the study of the natural world has always been recognized as an important factor, the role of experiment has been less clearly understood. Peter Dear investigates the nature of the change that occurred during this period, focusing particular attention on evolving notions of experience and how these developed into the experimental work that is at the center of modern science. He examines seventeenth-century mathematical sciencesOCoastronomy, optics, and mechanicsOConot as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Dear illuminates how mathematicians and natural philosophers of the periodOCoMersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle, and the JesuitsOCoused experience in their argumentation, and how and why these approaches changed over the course of a century. Drawing on mathematical texts and works of natural philosophy from all over Europe, he describes a process of change that was gradual, halting, sometimes contradictoryOCofar from the sharp break with intellectual tradition implied by the term revolution."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Discipline & Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution. To get started finding Discipline & Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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