Seventeenth-Century Natural Scientists

Seventeenth-Century Natural Scientists - Essays on Early Modern Philosophers

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Publisher's Synopsis

Reprints 15 essays published during the past three decades on Newton, Boyle, and Huygens, showing how they were part of the philosophical milieu of the 17th-century. Also discusses the general intellectual context in which they worked, the hermetic tradition with which their "mechanical philosophy" came to be contrasted, and the influence of Descar

Book information

ISBN: 9780815305811
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Imprint: Garland Pub.
Pub date:
DEWEY: 509.22
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 353
Weight: 680g
Height: 241mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 25mm