Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Author: Constance Blackwell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 695

ISBN-13: 1351911384

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This volume offers an important re-evaluation of early modern philosophy. It takes issue with the received notion of a ’revolution’ in philosophical thought in the 17th-century, making the case for treating the 16th and 17th centuries together. Taking up Charles Schmitt’s formulation of the many ’Aristotelianisms’ of the period, the papers bring out the variety and richness of the approaches to Aristotle, rather than treating his as a homogeneous system of thought. Based on much new research, they provide case studies of how philosophers used, developed, and reacted to the framework of Aristotelian logic, categories and distinctions, and demonstrate that Aristotelianism possessed both the flexibility and the dynamism to exert a continuing impact - even among such noted ’anti-Aristotelians’ as Descartes and Hobbes. This constant engagement can indeed be termed ’conversations with Aristotle’.

A History of Science Technology and Philosophy in the 18th Century
A History of Science Technology and Philosophy in the 18th Century

Author: Abraham Wolf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-04-23

Total Pages: 968

ISBN-13: 0429596251

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Published in 1938: The new volume presents a full and profusely illustrated account of progress made during the eighteenth century in Mathematics, Mechanics, Astronomy, Physics, Meteorology, Geography, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Psychology, Demography, Economics, Philosophy, and Technology.

The Correspondence of James Jurin (1684-1750)
The Correspondence of James Jurin (1684-1750)

Author: Andrea A. Rusnock

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 9004418482

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James Jurin (1684-1750) occupied a central place in the medical and scientific circles of Augustan and Georgian England. His dispassionate yet forceful advocacy of smallpox inoculation using an innovative statistical approach brought him widespread recognition both in Britain and abroad. He was Secretary to the Royal Society for seven years and participated vigorously in the most important scientific debates of the period. Jurin's correspondence, recently made available to the public, provides rich material for the study of eighteenth-century natural philosophy and medicine, especially of the smallpox inoculation debates. This volume reproduces a broad and valuable selection of letters, as well as a list of Jurin's publications and a calendar of the complete correspondence. The introductory biographical essay describes how Jurin combined a career as a successful London physician with that of a natural philosopher.

The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Peter R. Anstey

Publisher:

Published: 2013-06-27

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13: 0199549990

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Twenty-six new essays by experts on seventeenth-century thought provide a critical survey of this key period in British intellectual history. These far-reaching essays discuss not only central debates and canonical authors from Francis Bacon to Isaac Newton, but also explore less well-known figures and topics from the period.

A History of Natural Philosophy
A History of Natural Philosophy

Author: Edward Grant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-01-29

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0521869315

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This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.