The Construction of Modern Science
Richard S. Westfall
Cambridge University Press, 1978
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This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition, which look on nature in geometric terms, and the mechanical philosophy which conceived of nature as a huge machine.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521292955
- ISBN-10
- 0521292956
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1978
- Publication date
- 1978-01-27
- Pages
- 190
- Dimensions
- 154x230x13
- Weight
- 294