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the cambridge history of PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION TheearlymoderneraproducedtheScientificRevolution,which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established the conceptual foundationsofmodernity.Thisrichandcomprehensivevolume surveys and illuminates the numerous and complicated interconnectionsbetweenphilosophicalandscientificthoughtas both were radically transformed from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The chapters explore reciprocal influences between philosophy and physics, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines, and show how thinkers responded to an immense range of intellectual, material, and institutional influences. The volume offers a unique perspicuity, viewing the entire landscape of early modern philosophy and science, and also marks an epoch in contemporary scholarship, surveying recent contributions and suggesting future investigations for the next generation of scholarsandstudents. DAVIDMARSHALL MILLERisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyat AuburnUniversity.HeisauthorofRepresentingSpaceintheScientific Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and has published essaysin books andjournalsincludingPhilosophy ofScience,History of Science, Perspectives on Science, and Archive for History of Exact Sciences. DANA JALOBEANU is Associate Professor of Philosophy and DirectoroftheHumanitiesDivisionoftheResearchInstituteatthe University of Bucharest. She is author of The Art of Experimental Natural History: Francis Bacon in Context (2015) and co-editor of the JournalofEarlyModernStudies. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 30 Jan 2022 at 10:11:44, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 30 Jan 2022 at 10:11:44, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108 THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION * Editedby DAVID MARSHALL MILLER AuburnUniversity DANA JALOBEANU UniversityofBucharest Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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IDENTIFIERS:LCCN 2021023790(print)|LCCN 2021023791(ebook)|ISBN 9781108420303 (hardback)|ISBN 9781108413671(paperback)|ISBN 9781108333108(ebook) SUBJECTS:LCSH:Science–Philosophy–History.|BISAC:PHILOSOPHY/History&Surveys /Modern CLASSIFICATION:LCC Q174.8.M552022(print)|LCC Q174.8(ebook)|DDC 501–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021023790 LCebookrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2021023791 ISBN 978-1-108-42030-3Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 30 Jan 2022 at 10:11:44, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108 Contents ListofTablesandFigures pageviii ListofContributors ix Preface xiii Introduction:TheDisciplinaryRevolutionsofEarlyModernPhilosophy andScience 1 david marshall miller and dana jalobeanu part ithe disciplines 1.TheUsesofAncientPhilosophy 15 dmitri levitin 2.Novatores 35 daniel garber 3.RenaissanceAristotelianism(s) 58 helen hattab 4.WhatToDoWiththeMechanicalPhilosophy? 75 sophie roux 5.TheLaterSects:Cartesians,Gassendists,Leibnizians,andNewtonians 96 delphine bellis 6.ConfessionalizationandNaturalPhilosophy 111 andreas blank 7.TheRiseofaPublicScience?WomenandNaturalPhilosophy intheEarlyModernPeriod 128 v Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 30 Jan 2022 at 10:11:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108 Contents karen detlefsen part iidisciplinary activities 8.TheArtofThinking 149 sorana corneanu and koen vermeir 9.Astrology,NaturalMagic,andtheScientificRevolution 167 stephen clucas 10.Practitioners’Knowledge 184 joel a. klein 11.MedicineandtheScienceoftheLivingBody 201 peter distelzweig and evan ragland 12.ExperimentalNaturalHistory 222 peter r. anstey and dana jalobeanu 13.CelestialPhysics 238 pietro daniel omodeo and jonathan regier 14.ApplyingMathematicstoNature 254 maarten van dyck 15.MathematicalInnovationandTradition:TheCartesianCommon andtheLeibnizianNewAnalyses 274 niccolo` guicciardini 16.MechanicsinNewton’sWake 293 brian hepburn and zvi biener part iiiproblems and controversies 17.Galileo’sSidereusNunciusandItsReception 315 david marshall miller 18.InstrumentsandtheSenses 331 philippe hamou 19.ScienceofMind 350 vi Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 30 Jan 2022 at 10:11:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108 Contents martine pećharman 20.CirculationandtheNewPhysiology 369 gideon manning 21.FromMetaphysicalPrinciplestoDynamicalLaws 387 marius stan 22.TheDebateAboutBodyandExtension 406 geoffrey gorham and edward slowik 23.SpaceandItsRelationshiptoGod 424 andrew janiak and emily thomas 24.TheVisVivaControversy 439 anne-lise rey Bibliography 453 Index 524 vii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 30 Jan 2022 at 10:11:45, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108 Tables and Figures ListofTables 8.1. Canonsofauthorsofartsofthinking 154 ListofFigures 14.1. Determininganunknowndistance 257 14.2. Tartaglia’stheorica 262 15.1. Descartes’sgeometricalinterpretationofalgebraicoperations 275 15.2. Algebraicdefinitionofanellipse 276 15.3. Descartes’smesolabum 277 15.4. Diagramfortheproblemofangle-trisectioninDescartes’sGéométrie 280 15.5. Varignon’sgraphsoffunctionaldependenciesamongparametersofmotion 287 18.1. Kepler’sdiagrammatic“telescope” 337 18.2.Descartes’sfirsttwodevicesforenlargingretinalimages 339 20.1.Illustrationofthetwo-chamberedheart 373 20.2.Illustrationoftheengorgedveins 379 20.3.Illustrationoftheengorgedveinsandthedirectionofbloodflow 380 21.1. Centroidmechanics 392 21.2. Bernoulli’sLeverPrinciple 394 viii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 30 Jan 2022 at 10:11:44, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108 Contributors PETER R. ANSTEY DepartmentofPhilosophy UniversityofSydney DELPHINE BELLIS DepartmentofPhilosophy UniversitéPaul-ValéryMontpellier ZVI BIENER DepartmentofPhilosophy UniversityofCincinnati ANDREAS BLANK DepartmentofPhilosophy Alpen-Adria-UniversitätKlagenfurt STEPHEN CLUCAS DepartmentofEnglish,Theatre,andCreativeWriting BirkbeckCollege,UniversityofLondon SORANA CORNEANU DepartmentofEnglish UniversityofBucharest KAREN DETLEFSEN DepartmentofPhilosophy UniversityofPennsylvania PETER DISTELZWEIG DepartmentofPhilosophy UniversityofSt.Thomas DANIEL GARBER DepartmentofPhilosophy PrincetonUniversity GEOFFREY GORHAM DepartmentofPhilosophy MacalesterCollege ix Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Toronto, on 30 Jan 2022 at 10:11:44, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use , available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108333108