Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
A Catalogue of Seventeenth Century Printed Books in the National Library of Medicine
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Mechanization of Natural Philosophy
Author: Sophie RouxPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400743440
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy is devoted to various aspects of the transformation of natural philosophy during the 16th and 17th centuries that is usually described as mechanical philosophy . Drawing the border between the old Aristotelianism and the « new » mechanical philosophy faces historians with a delicate task, if not an impossible mission. There were many natural philosophers who actually crossed the border between the two worlds, and, inside each of these worlds, there was a vast spectrum of doctrines, arguments and intellectual practices. The expression mechanical philosophy is burdened with ambiguities. It may refer to at least three different enterprises: a description of nature in mathematical terms; the comparison of natural phenomena to existing or imaginary machines; the use in natural philosophy of mechanical analogies, i.e. analogies conceived in terms of matter and motion alone.However mechanical philosophy is defined, its ambition was greater than its real successes. There were few mathematisations of phenomena. The machines of mechanical philosophers were not only imaginary, but had little to do with the machines of mecanicians. In most of the natural sciences, analogies in terms of matter and motion alone failed to provide satisfactory accounts of phenomena.By the same authors: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 254).
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryDavid Gorlaeus (1591-1612)
Author: Christoph LüthyPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089644385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus’ family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also attempts to define Gorlaeus’ place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early Cartesian circles. Christoph Lüthy is professor of the history of philosophy and science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Catalogue of Scandinavian Books in the British Library Printed Before 1801
Author: Peter C. HoggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Containing over 11,000 items, this catalogue of a major library consists of books, periodicals and pamphlets, as well as maps and printed music. It records its holdings of early printed materials from all the Scandinavian countries. Books printed elsewhere in the languages of Scandinavia are also included.
Librorum Impressorum qui in Museo Britannico Adservantur Catalogus
Author: The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
The Copernican Question
Author: Robert WestmanPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520355695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this long sixteenth century, from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new framework for understanding the great transformations in natural philosophy in the century that followed.