Atom and Individual in the Age of Newton: On the Genesis of the Mechanistic World View

by Gideon Freudenthal

In this stimulating investigation, Gideon Freudenthal has linked social history with the history of science by formulating an interesting proposal: that the supposed influence of social theory may be seen as actual through its co- herence with the process of formation of physical concepts. The reinterpre- tation of the development of science in the seventeenth century, now widely influential, receives at Freudenthal's hand its most persuasive statement,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027719055
• ISBN13: 9789027719058
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"