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Squaring the Circle - The War between Hobbes and Wallis (Paperback, New)
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Squaring the Circle - The War between Hobbes and Wallis (Paperback, New)
Series: Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF
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In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the
centuries-old problem of "squaring of the circle" (constructing a
square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal
to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis began one of the
longest and most intense intellectual disputes of all time.
"Squaring the Circle" is a detailed account of this controversy,
from the core mathematics to the broader philosophical, political,
and religious issues at stake.
Hobbes believed that by recasting geometry in a materialist mold,
he could solve any geometric problem and thereby demonstrate the
power of his materialist metaphysics. Wallis, a prominent
Presbyterian divine as well as an eminent mathematician, refuted
Hobbes's geometry as a means of discrediting his philosophy, which
Wallis saw as a dangerous mix of atheism and pernicious political
theory.
Hobbes and Wallis's "battle of the books" illuminates the intimate
relationship between science and crucial seventeenth-century
debates over the limits of sovereign power and the existence of
God.
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