Overview
- One of few books to take seriously the early modern category of "natural philosophy" as the field and activity in which knowledge of nature was pursued and contested
- Chapters cover key dimensions of the dynamics of the field of natural philosophy, hence promote use and articulation of this important concept in historiography of science
- Chapters are by leading internationally reputed experts in their respective specialities, focused on theme of changing patterns in and dynamics of natural philosophy in the 17th century
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 19)
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Book Title: The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century
Book Subtitle: Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy
Editors: Peter R. Anstey, John A. Schuster
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3703-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3603-3Published: 23 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6909-2Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3703-0Published: 28 June 2006
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 250
Topics: Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History, general