David Marshall Miller

Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Using an integrated philosophical and historical approach, this book explores the fundamental shift in understandings of space in the scientific revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781107624719
• ISBN-10: 1107624711
• Artikelnr.: 45155558

Autorenporträt

David Marshall Miller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. He has published articles in journals including Philosophy of Science and History of Science.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Preface
Note on texts
1. Introduction: centers and orientations
2. Pluribus ergo existentibus centris: explanations, descriptions, and Copernicus
3. Non est motus omnino: Gilbert, verticity, and the Law of the Whole
4. Respicere sinus: Kepler, oriented Space, and the ellipse
5. Mille movimenti circolari: from Impetus to conserved curvilinear motion in Galileo
6. Directions sont entre elles paralleles: Descartes and his critics on oriented space and the parallelogram rule
7. Incline it to verge: Newton's spatial synthesis
8. Conclusion: methodological morals
References
Index.