Language of nature, the: reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the seventeenth century
Éditeur :
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN :
9780816699896
Date de publication :
15 juin 2016
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 5,1 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Although the mathematization of nature is a distinctive and crucial feature of the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century, this volume shows that it was a far more complex, contested, and context-dependent phenomenon than the received historiography has indicated.