Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy
Margaret J. (University of Calgary) Osler
Cambridge University Press, 1994
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This book is about the varying influence of theological conceptions of contingency and necessity on two versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. Pierre Gassendi and René Descartes both believed that all natural phenomena could be explained in terms of matter and motion alone.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521461047
- ISBN-10
- 0521461049
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 1994
- Publication date
- 1994-06-24
- Pages
- 300
- Dimensions
- 238x160x24
- Weight
- 618