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portada Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2013
Language
English
Pages
280
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6 x 15.0 x 1.8 cm
Weight
0.39 kg.
ISBN
1421409364
ISBN13
9781421409368
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Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making

Van Berkel, Klaas ; Ultee, Maarten (Author) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Paperback

Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making - Van Berkel, Klaas ; Ultee, Maarten

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Synopsis "Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making"

Explore the work of a founding father of the mechanical philosophy of nature, Isaac Beeckman (1588-1637).The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific thought has never been properly acknowledged. Surprisingly free from the constraints of traditional natural philosophy, he developed a view of the world in which everything, from the motion of the heavens to musical harmonies, is explained by reducing it to matter in motion. His ideas deeply influenced Descartes and Gassendi. Klaas van Berkel has succeeded in unearthing and explicating Beeckman's scientific notebooks, allowing us to follow how he developed his new philosophy, almost day by day.Beeckman was almost forgotten until the discovery of his notebooks in the early twentieth century. Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion is the first full-length study of the ideas and motives of this remarkable figure. Van Berkel's important study first relates Beeckman's life, placing him in the religious, intellectual, educational, and social context of the Dutch Republic in its golden age. Van Berkel then analyzes the notebooks themselves and the nature and development of Beeckman's "mechanical philosophy." He demonstrates how Beeckman's artisanal background and religious convictions shaped his natural philosophy, even as the decisive influence stems from the educational philosophy of the sixteenth-century French philosopher Peter Ramus. Historians of science and the philosophy of science will find the substance of Beeckman's thought and the unraveling of its growth and development highly interesting. Van Berkel's account provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of the origins of the mechanical philosophy of nature, the philosophy that culminated in the work of Isaac Newton.

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