Measures of Science Theological and Technological Impulses in Early Modern Thought

By:

Barry, James

Contributor(s):

Barry, James

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Evanston Northwestern University Press 1996Description: 210pISBN:

0810114259

DDC classification:

N54 B279

Partial contents:

Part 1: Descartes`s Rectification of Natural Appearance: Thinking over Perception Platonic and Aristotelian Anticipations of Descartes`s God of Infinite Productivity The Destruction of the Cosmos in the Homogeneity of Things The Measure of Space and the Rectification of Natural Appearance Part 2: Modern Science as Technical Intervention: Bacon`s Promethean Measure Mythical Truth, the Weak Tradition, and the Power of Scientific Hope The Question of Technical Creation and the Second Nature of Baconian Science The New Authority of Technical Intervention: From "Natural History" to "Experimental Nature" Part 3: Newton`s Perceptual Authority and the Decisiveness of Technical Appearance The Merger of the Corpuscular and the Mathematical: Newton`s Empirical Science The Divine Propriety of Spirit and the Insufficient Space of Nature Theoretical Embodiment: The Technical Authority of Newtonian Time and Space

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