Measures of science : theological and technological impulses in early modern thought

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Author:

Barry, James, 1955-

ISBN:

9780810114258

9780810114241

Personal Author:

Barry, James, 1955-

Publication Information:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c1996.

Physical Description:

xii, 210 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy

Northwestern University studies in phenomenology & existential philosophy

Contents:

1. Platonic and Aristotelian Anticipations of Descartes's God of Infinite Productivity -- 2. The Destruction of the Cosmos in the Homogeneity of Things -- 3. The Measure of Space and the Rectification of Natural Appearance -- 4. Mythical Truth, the Weak Tradition, and the Power of Scientific Hope -- 5. The Question of Technical Creation and the Second Nature of Baconian Science -- 6. The New Authority of Technical Intervention: From "Natural History" to "Experimental Nature" -- 7. The Merger of the Corpuscular and the Mathematical: Newton's Empirical Science -- 8. The Divine Propriety of Spirit and the Insufficient Space of Nature -- 9. Theoretical Embodiment: The Technical Authority of Newtonian Time and Space.

Abstract:

Drawing on past and current research in continental philosophy, Measures of Science: Theological and Technological Impulses in Early Modern Thought examines the development of certain founding issues of early modern science. Focusing on three key seventeenth-century figures - Descartes, Bacon, and Newton, - and locating his argument explicitly within the approach of Alexandre Koyre, James Farry Jr. explores the philosophical, theological, and technological priorities that established the frame for the full emergence of the new science. In showing how the work of these and other seventeenth-century figures led to the appearance of a dominant new view of nature and perception, Barry's book makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the formative period of modern science.

Personal Subject:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650-Contributions in philosophy of science.

Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626-Contributions in philosophy of science.

Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727-Contributions in philosophy of science.

Subject Term:

Science -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.

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Drawing on past and current research in continental philosophy, Measures of Science: Theological and Technological Impulses in Early Modern Thought examines the development of certain founding issues of early modern science. Focusing on three key seventeenth-century figures--Descartes, Bacon, and Newton--and locating his argument explicitly within the approach of Alexandre Koyre, James Barry Jr. explores the philosophical, theological, and technological priorities that established the frame for the full emergence of the new science. In showing how the work of these and other seventeenth-century figures led to the appearance of a dominant new view of nature and perception, Barry's book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the formative period of modern science.