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Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
Peter Dear
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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