Discipline & experience : the mathematical way in the scientific revolution / Peter Dear.
Pubblicazione:
Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 1995.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 290 p. ; 24 cm
Serie:
Science and its conceptual foundations
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. Acknowledgments. Note on citations and translations. Introduction: The measure of all things. 1. Induction in early-modern Europe 2. Experience and Jesuit mathematical science : the practical importance of methodology 3. Expertise, novel claims and experimantal events 4. Apostolic succession, astronomical knowledge and scientific traditions 5. The uses of experience 6. Art, nature, metaphor : the growth of physico-mathematics 7. Pascal's void, natural philosophers and mathematical experience 8. Barrow, Newton and constructivist experiment. Conclusion: A mathematical natural philosophy? Bibliography. Index
Note galileane:
Di Galilei in molti capitoli del libro, ma, in particolare, nei cap. 4 e 5