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Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe (Religion and Postmodernism) - Softcover

Blay, Michel

 
9780226058351: Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe (Religion and Postmodernism)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226058352 ISBN 13: 9780226058351
Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Until the Scientific Revolution, the nature and motions of heavenly objects were mysterious and unpredictable. The Scientific Revolution was revolutionary in part because it saw the advent of many mathematical tools--chief among them the calculus--that natural philosophers could use to explain and predict these cosmic motions. Michel Blay traces the origins of this mathematization of the world, from Galileo to Newton and Laplace, and considers the profound philosophical consequences of submitting the infinite to rational analysis.

"One of Michael Blay's many fine achievements in Reasoning with the Infinite is to make us realize how velocity, and later instantaneous velocity, came to play a vital part in the development of a rigorous mathematical science of motion."--Margaret Wertheim, New Scientist




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Verlag
UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226058352
ISBN 13 
9780226058351
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
226
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