Discipline and Experience: Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution

Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution Dear Peter Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press Data wydania: 1995 ISBN: 9780226139449 Liczba stron: 304 Format: 154 x 229 x 23 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: This study examines 17th-century mathematical sciences - astronomy, optics and mechanics - not as abstract ideas, but as vital enterprises that involved practices related to both experience and experiment. Mersenne, Descartes, Pascal, Barrow, Newton, Boyle and the Jesuits are discussed.