Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Anstey, Peter

Title Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Nature : Descartes and Beyond
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010

Copies

Description 1 online resource (287 pages)
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Cartesian Matter; 1 The Vanishing Nature of Body in Descartes's Natural Philosophy; 2 The New Matter Theory and Its Epistemology: Descartes (and Late Scholastics) on Hypotheses and Moral Certainty; Part II: Matter, Mechanism, and Medicine; 3 Post-Cartesian Atomism: The Case of François Bernier; 4 The Matter of Medicine: New Medical Matter Theories in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England; 5 Without God: Gravity as a Relational Quality of Matter in Newton's Treatise
Summary This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy of matter to be charted in new ways. Part I concerns Cartesian Matter; Part II covers Matter, Mechanism and Medicine; Part III covers Matter and the Laws of Motion; and Part IV covers Leibniz and Hume. Bringing together some of the world's leading scholars of early modern philosophy, as well
Notes Print version record
Subject Physical laws -- History -- 17th century
Physics -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century
Physical laws
Physics -- Philosophy
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Jalobeanu, Dana
ISBN 9780203833384
0203833384