Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series - Peter Dear - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226139432 - November 25, 1995
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Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series


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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.


304 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 25, 1995
ISBN13 9780226139432
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 304
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   652 g
Language English  

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