Overview
- Presents a unified view of Hooke’s published and unpublished works
- Challenges the traditional views of British restoration science
- Includes a selection of Hooke’s unpublished papers
- Offers a ground-breaking general synthesis of Robert Hooke’s natural philosophy
- Focuses on the pre-Newtonian interaction between mechanical and experimental philosophy
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 231)
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This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society. From celestial mechanics to microscopy, from optics to geology and biology, Hooke’s contributions to the Scientific Revolution proved decisive. Focusing separately on partial aspects of Hooke’s works, scholars have hitherto failed to see the unifying idea of the natural philosophy underlying them. Some of his unpublished papers have passed almost unnoticed. Hooke pursued the foundation of a real, mechanical and experimental philosophy, and this book is an attempt to reconstruct it. The book includes a selection of Hooke's unpublished papers.
Readers will discover a study of the new science through the works of one of the most known protagonists. Challenging the current views on the scientific life of restoration England, this book sheds new light on the circulation of Baconian ideals and the mechanical philosophyin the early Royal Society. This book is a must-read to anybody interested in Hooke, early modern science or Restoration history.
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Book Title: Real, Mechanical, Experimental
Book Subtitle: Robert Hooke's Natural Philosophy
Authors: Francesco G. Sacco
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44451-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44450-1Published: 30 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-44453-2Published: 30 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-44451-8Published: 29 June 2020
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 266
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, History of Philosophy, Modern Philosophy