Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools / / Peter R. Dear.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 b&w photographs, 10 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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