Measures of Science
Theological and Technological Impulses in Early Modern Thought
Will be published approx. on 25. November 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-0-8101-1425-8 (ISBN)
Description
A study of the philosophy of early modern science. Focusing on three key 17th-century figures - Descartes, Bacon and Newton - the author explores science's philosophical and theological background.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-1425-8 (9780810114258)
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Content
Part 1 Descartes's rectification of natural appearance - thinking over perception: Platonic and Aristotelian anticipations of Descartes's God of infinite productivity; the destruction of the cosmos in the homogeneity of things; the measure of space and the rectification of natural appearance. Part 2 Modern science as technical intervention - Bacon's Promethean measure: mythical truth, the weak tradition and the power of scientific hope; the question of technical creation and the second nature of Baconian science; the new authority of technical intervention - from "natural history" to "experimental nature". Part 3 Newton's perceptual authority and the decisiveness of technical appearance: the merger of the corpuscular and the mathematical - Newton's empirical science; the divine propriety of spirit and the insufficient space of nature; theoretical embodiment - the technical authority of Newtonian time and space.