The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (2016)
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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.0.

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Color by numbers : the harmonious palette in early modern painting.Eileen Reeves
Introduction.Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill & Edward Slowik
Laws of nature and the mathematics of motion.Daniel Garber
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
On the mathematization of free fall : Galileo, Descartes, and a history of misconstrual.Richard T. W. Arthur
Philosophical geometers and geometrical philosophers.Christopher Smeenk
Ratios, quotients, and the language of nature.Douglas Jesseph
Reading the book of nature : the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of Galileo's mathematical realism.Carla Rita Palmerino
The geometrical method as a new standard of truth, based on the mathematization of nature.Ursula Goldenbaum
The marriage of physics with mathematics" : Francis Bacon on measurement, mathematics, and the construction of a mathematical physics.Dana Jalobeanu
The mathematization of nature in Descartes and the first Cartesians.Roger Ariew
The role of mathematical practitioners and mathematical practice in developing mathematics as the language of nature.Lesley B. Cormack
Philosophical Geometers and Geometrical Philosophers.  (pages 308-338)Chris Smeenk

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