The Circle of the Sciences: Mechanical philosophy
Author : William Somerville Orr
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Science
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Author : William Somerville Orr
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 33,10 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Science
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Author : William Somerville Orr
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Page : 556 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Science
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Author : Richard S. Westfall
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Page : 171 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521218634
The interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and the mechanical philosophy during the 'scientific revolution'.
Author : Encyclopaedias
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Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : James Wylde
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Page : 780 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Science
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Author : Henry Brougham
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Page : 1162 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : David S. Sytsma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190274875
Richard Baxter, one of the 17th century's most famous Puritans, is known as an author of devotional literature. But he was also skilled in medieval philosophy. In this work, David Sytsma draws on largely unexamined works to present a chronogolical and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-17th-century England
Author : James Wylde
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Science
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Author : W. S. ORR (AND CO.)
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 1856
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Author : Margaret J. Osler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780521524926
The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine will and expressed his conviction that empirical methods are the only way to acquire knowledge about the natural world. Descartes, on the contrary, described a world in which God had embedded necessary relations, some of which enable us to have a priori knowledge of substantial parts of the natural world. In this book, Professor Osler explores theological conceptions of contingency and necessity in the world and how these ideas influenced the development of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. She examines the transformation of medieval ideas about God's relationship to the Creation into seventeenth-century ideas about matter and method as embodied in early articulations of the mechanical philosophy. Refracted through the prism of the mechanical philosophy, these theological conceptualizations of contingency and necessity in the world were mirrored in different styles of science that emerged in the second half of the seventeenth century.