Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools / / Peter R. Dear.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Dear, Peter R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 b&w photographs, 10 illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Author’s Note on Translations --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Humanism and the Implications of Rhetoric --; 3. Dialectic, Probabilism, and “Mitigated Scepticism” --; 4. Aristotelian Science and the Metaphysics of Mathematics --; 5. Saint Augustine and Universal Harmony --; 6. Mechanics, Music, and Harmony --; 7. Philosophical Systems, Essentialism, and the Language of Philosophy --; 8. Mersenne’s Later Career: A Philosophical Agenda and Its Limitations --; 9. Summary and Conclusions --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501734007; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501734007
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter R. Dear.