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This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newtonianism, the body-mind problem, and philosophical principles of classification in the life sciences. An appendix contains a critical edition and first translation into English of Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his Principia.

This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge ¿ Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, and Practical Mathematics ¿ which represent the main types of advanced technological and scientific knowledge of the era. These six fields o...

This book offers a comprehensive study and account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge - Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, and Practical Mathematics - which represent the main types of advanced technological and scientific knowledge of the era. These six fields o...

Wie entstand die Theorie Darwins? War sie ein Produkt des fortschrittsgläubigen 19. Jahrhunderts? Warum wurde sie trotz der weltanschaulichen Kontroversen, die sie provozierte, von Darwins Fachgenossen akzeptiert? Auf welche Kenntnis- und Problemsituation in den Lebenswissenschaften bezog sie sich? Diesen Fragen geht das Buch in materialreichen und leichtverständlichen Analysen der Vorgeschichte von Darwins Theorie und ihrer ersten Rezeption n...

This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newtonianism, the body-mind problem, and philosophical principles of classification in the life sciences. An appendix contains a critical edition and first translation into English of Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his Principia.

This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newtonianism, the body-mind problem, and philosophical principles of classification in the life sciences. An appendix contains a critical edition and first translation into English of Newton's scholia from David Gregory's Estate on the Propositions IV through IX Book III of his Principia.

How technical drawings shaped early engineering practice.

The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.