Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy |
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| Author:
| Sepkoski, David |
| Series title: | Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-70211-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $253.00 |
Book Description:
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This book seeks the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century. In so doing, the author presents a scholarly, reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Berkeley.
This book seeks the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century. In so doing, the author presents a scholarly, reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Berkeley.