Chapter ID: CBB000101471

Order of Nature and Orders of Science: On the Material Philosophy of Nature and Its Changing Concepts of Science from Newton and Euler to Lagrange and Kant (2001)

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Pulte, Helmut (Author)


Pages: 61--92
Publication date: 2001
Language: English


Description Describes developments in eighteenth-century mathematical philosophy of nature from the standpoint of “mechanical Euclideanism”.


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Authors & Contributors
Domski, Mary
Ferraro, Giovanni
Freguglia, Paolo
Jia, Xiaoyong
Assayag, Gérard
Benci, Vieri
Journals
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Historia Mathematica
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Springer
University of Pittsburgh
Indiana University
Birkhäuser
Carocci Editore
European Mathematical Society
Concepts
Mathematics
Calculus
Philosophy of mathematics
Mathematics and its relationship to nature
Geometry
Societies; institutions; academies
People
Euler, Leonhard
Lagrange, Joseph Louis
Newton, Isaac
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Bernoulli, Daniel
Bernoulli, Johann
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
16th century
20th century, early
Places
France
Italy
England
Europe
Germany
Switzerland
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