The Language of Nature Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

includes index and biblioraphy

Reading the book of Nature : The Ontological and Epistemological underpinnings of Galileo`s Mathematical Realism ........29 The marriage of Physics with Mathematics : Francis bacon on Measurement, Mathematics, and the Construction of a mathematical Physics ......51 On the Mathematization of Free Fall: Galileo, Descartes, and a History of Misconstrual .......81 The mathematization of Nature in Descartes and the First cartesians ..................112 Laws of nature and the Mathematics of Mortion ........134 Ratios, Quotients, and the Language of Nature ......160 Color by Numbers: The harmonious palette in Early modern Painting ........178 The Role of Mathematical practitioners and Mathematical Practice in De3veloping mathematics as the Language of Nature ..........205 Leibniz on Order, Harmony, and the Notion of Substance mathematizing the Science of Metaphysics and Physics ...........229 Leibniz`s Harlequindae: Nature, infinity, and the limits, of Mathematization ...............250 The geometrical methods as a Standard of Truth , Based on the mathematization of Nature ..................274 Philosophical geometers and Geometrical Philosophers ........308