Real, mechanical, experimental : Robert Hooke's natural philosophy / Francesco G. Sacco.
Sacco, Francesco G.
2020
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Title Real, mechanical, experimental : Robert Hooke's natural philosophy / Francesco G. Sacco.
Author Sacco, Francesco G.
ISBN 9783030444518 (electronic book)
3030444511 (electronic book)
9783030444501
3030444503
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44
Publication Details Cham : Springer, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (274 pages).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-44
Call Number QC6
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.01
Summary This original work contains the first detailed account of the natural philosophy of Robert Hooke (1635-1703), leading figure of the early Royal Society. From celestial mechanics to microscopy, from optics to geology and biology, Hookes contributions to the Scientific Revolution proved decisive. Focusing separately on partial aspects of Hookes works, scholars have hitherto failed to see the unifying idea of the natural philosophy underlying them. Some of his unpublished papers have passed almost unnoticed. Hooke pursued the foundation of a real, mechanical and experimental philosophy, and this book is an attempt to reconstruct it. The book includes a selection of Hooke's unpublished papers. Readers will discover a study of the new science through the works of one of the most known protagonists. Challenging the current views on the scientific life of restoration England, this book sheds new light on the circulation of Baconian ideals and the mechanical philosophy in the early Royal Society. This book is a must-read to anybody interested in Hooke, early modern science or Restoration history.
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Series Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 231.
Available in Other Form Real, Mechanical, Experimental : Robert Hooke's Natural Philosophy
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1. Human Understanding
2. Ministrations
3. Philosophical Algebra
Chapter 4. A larger Scheme
5. Vibrant Matters
6. A New System of the World
7. Matter and History
8. Beyond Priority
9. Did Hooke have a Natural Philosophy?.

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