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The Path to Post-Galilean EpistemologyConcluding Remarks

The Path to Post-Galilean Epistemology: Concluding Remarks [Previous chapters highlight the continuity of modern science with the Hellenistic (mixed) mathematics and changes recorded since the sixteenth century. Attention has been focused on those (mixed) mathematics that had developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, such as optics, astronomy, mechanics, music, acoustics, and the like. Less attention has been paid to the other disciplines that did not, or seemed not, to make an effective use of mathematics including, magnetism, electricity, chemistry, biology, anatomy, and botany. Here mathematics still exercised a role, however, in the sense that their exposition exhibited mathematical forms, with the use of definitions, principles set out in plain language – with synonyms and homonyms avoided as much as possible – in which everything could be explained by what had been said before. No attention was devoted to abstract reasonings and all the deductions were based on natural logic without referring to syllogisms as typical of many philosophical approaches.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Path to Post-Galilean EpistemologyConcluding Remarks

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
ISBN
978-3-319-58309-9
Pages
495 –527
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-58310-5_6
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[Previous chapters highlight the continuity of modern science with the Hellenistic (mixed) mathematics and changes recorded since the sixteenth century. Attention has been focused on those (mixed) mathematics that had developed in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, such as optics, astronomy, mechanics, music, acoustics, and the like. Less attention has been paid to the other disciplines that did not, or seemed not, to make an effective use of mathematics including, magnetism, electricity, chemistry, biology, anatomy, and botany. Here mathematics still exercised a role, however, in the sense that their exposition exhibited mathematical forms, with the use of definitions, principles set out in plain language – with synonyms and homonyms avoided as much as possible – in which everything could be explained by what had been said before. No attention was devoted to abstract reasonings and all the deductions were based on natural logic without referring to syllogisms as typical of many philosophical approaches.]

Published: Jul 9, 2017

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