Author: William Somerville Orr
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Circle of the Sciences: Mechanical philosophy
Author: William Somerville Orr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Orr's Circle of the Sciences: Mechanical philosophy (1856)
Author: William Somerville Orr
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
Author: Margaret J. Osler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524926
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine will and expressed his conviction that empirical methods are the only way to acquire knowledge about the natural world. Descartes, on the contrary, described a world in which God had embedded necessary relations, some of which enable us to have a priori knowledge of substantial parts of the natural world. In this book, Professor Osler explores theological conceptions of contingency and necessity in the world and how these ideas influenced the development of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. She examines the transformation of medieval ideas about God's relationship to the Creation into seventeenth-century ideas about matter and method as embodied in early articulations of the mechanical philosophy. Refracted through the prism of the mechanical philosophy, these theological conceptualizations of contingency and necessity in the world were mirrored in different styles of science that emerged in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521524926
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The difference between Pierre Gassendi's (1592-1655) and René Descartes' (1596-1650) versions of the mechanical philosophy directly reflected the differences in their theological presuppositions. Gassendi described a world utterly contingent on divine will and expressed his conviction that empirical methods are the only way to acquire knowledge about the natural world. Descartes, on the contrary, described a world in which God had embedded necessary relations, some of which enable us to have a priori knowledge of substantial parts of the natural world. In this book, Professor Osler explores theological conceptions of contingency and necessity in the world and how these ideas influenced the development of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. She examines the transformation of medieval ideas about God's relationship to the Creation into seventeenth-century ideas about matter and method as embodied in early articulations of the mechanical philosophy. Refracted through the prism of the mechanical philosophy, these theological conceptualizations of contingency and necessity in the world were mirrored in different styles of science that emerged in the second half of the seventeenth century.
The Construction of Modern Science
Author: Richard S. Westfall
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ISBN: 9780521218634
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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The interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and the mechanical philosophy during the 'scientific revolution'.
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ISBN: 9780521218634
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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The interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition and the mechanical philosophy during the 'scientific revolution'.
Orr's Circle of the Sciences. A Series of Treatises on the Principles of Science, with Their Application to Practical Pursuits. [Edited by J. S. Bushman?]
Author: W. S. ORR (AND CO.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Richard Baxter and the Mechanical Philosophers
Author: David S. Sytsma
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190274875
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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Richard Baxter, one of the 17th century's most famous Puritans, is known as an author of devotional literature. But he was also skilled in medieval philosophy. In this work, David Sytsma draws on largely unexamined works to present a chronogolical and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-17th-century England
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190274875
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Richard Baxter, one of the 17th century's most famous Puritans, is known as an author of devotional literature. But he was also skilled in medieval philosophy. In this work, David Sytsma draws on largely unexamined works to present a chronogolical and thematic account of Baxter's relation to the people and concepts involved in the rise of mechanical philosophy in late-17th-century England
The Circle of the Sciences
Author: Henry Brougham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Author: Buffalo Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Buffalo. Public Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Finding List
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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