What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary
mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment
of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In
answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant
group of philosophers shared the belief that there is no necessary
correspondence between external reality and objects of human
understanding, which they held to include the objects of
mathematical and linguistic discourse. The result is a scholarly
reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the
works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton,
Leibniz, and Berkeley. This impressive volume will benefit scholars
interested in the history of philosophy, mathematical philosophy
and the history of mathematics.
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