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Discipline and Experience - The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (Paperback, New)
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Discipline and Experience - The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (Paperback, New)
Series: Science & its Conceptual Foundations Series SCF
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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 sciences--astronomy, optics, and
mechanics--not 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
period--Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle, and the
Jesuits--used 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 contradictory--far from the sharp break with intellectual
tradition implied by the term "revolution."
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