Mechanism and Materialism.

By:

Schofield, Robert E

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TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781400871025
1400871026

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mechanism and Materialism: British Natural Philosophy in the Age of Reason.DDC classification:

530.01 23

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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

Summary: 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, although each developed more or less independently. By integrating the developments in all the areas of experimental natural philosophy, describing their connections and the influences of Continental science, natural theology, and to a lesser degree social and institutional changes, the author dem.

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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, although each developed more or less independently. By integrating the developments in all the areas of experimental natural philosophy, describing their connections and the influences of Continental science, natural theology, and to a lesser degree social and institutional changes, the author dem.

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