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The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution

David Marshall Miller editor Dana Jalobeanu editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:6th Jan '22

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A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

This rich and comprehensive volume surveys and illuminates the numerous and complicated interconnections between philosophical and scientific thought as both were radically transformed in the period from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century.The early modern era produced the Scientific Revolution, which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established the conceptual foundations of modernity. This rich and comprehensive volume surveys and illuminates the numerous and complicated interconnections between philosophical and scientific thought as both were radically transformed from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The chapters explore reciprocal influences between philosophy and physics, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines, and show how thinkers responded to an immense range of intellectual, material, and institutional influences. The volume offers a unique perspicuity, viewing the entire landscape of early modern philosophy and science, and also marks an epoch in contemporary scholarship, surveying recent contributions and suggesting future investigations for the next generation of scholars and students.

ISBN: 9781108420303

Dimensions: 235mm x 160mm x 30mm

Weight: 960g

560 pages