Mechanism and Materialism : : British Natural Philosophy in An Age of Reason / / Robert E. Schofield.
Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action-mechanism and materialism. Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1970 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- CHAPTER ONE. Newton's Legacy
- PART I. MECHANISM AND DYNAMIC CORPUSCULARITY 1687-1740
- CHAPTER TWO. Diffusion of a Newtonian Creed
- CHAPTER THREE. Elaboration of a Theory
- CHAPTER FOUR. Experimental Newtonianism
- PART IX. AETHER AND MATERIALISM. 1740-1789
- CHAPTER FIVE. Second Thoughts and the New Revelation
- CHAPTER SIX. Newtonian Pagans and Heretics
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Early Continental Interactions
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Imponderable Fluids
- CHAPTER NINE. Vital Physiology and Elementary Chemistry
- PART III. NEO-MECHANISM. 1760-1815
- CHAPTER TEN. Forces, Fluid Dynamics, and Fields
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Interregnum, 1789-1815
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX