Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy

By David Sepkoski

This book seeks the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century. In so doing, the author presents a scholarly, reliable, but accessible, account of the role of mathematics in the works of (amongst others) Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, and Berkeley.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415702119
• ISBN13: 9780415702119
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.2"