A Subtle and Mysterious Machine
Walter Charleton (1619-1707) has been widely depicted as a natural philosopher whose intellectual career mirrored the intellectual ...
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Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany
This work is to counter historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices ...
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Nature, Value, Duty
"Nature Value and Duty: Life on Earth with Holmes Rolston, III" is a collection of contemporary writings on the work of ...
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Ruggiero Boscovich’s Theory of Natural Philosophy
Drawing on published works, correspondence and manuscripts, this book offers the most comprehensive reconstruction of Boscovich’s ...
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The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century
The papers in this collection focus on patterns of change in natural philosophy in the seventeenth century, aiming to encourage ...
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Vegetative Powers
The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...
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"Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, ...
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