Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and Galileo

Dutton, Blake D.

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“…Esse rompimento mostra as similaridades entre a coluna de água e uma corda ou outro sólido que se rompe quando sua resistência é vencida(o metal é mencionado, assim como especificamente fios de cobre; veremos mais adiante o papel que os metais representam na discussão). Mas de qualquer maneira, os líquidos oferecem a chave para que Galileu explique a continuidade na matéria formada por indivisíveis 31 . 31 Mesmo que ele nunca tenha alcançado uma boa explicação para a tensão superficial.…”

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The well-known quotation of The Assayer (1623) concerning the geometrical language of nature can be taken as a synthesis of galileo's project: turning to nature without knowing that language is an useless errantry on a dark labyrinth. The problem of the traditional thesis on the heterogeneity of mathematical exactness and the imperfection of matter is highlighted by Galileo in his defense of the necessity of using Geometry in Natural Philosophy. For solving it (and for refusing the heterogeneity), the author shows that only Geometry makes it possible to overcome the difficulties related to the continuum. This discussion,is present in his Discourses concerning the two new sciences (1638). Both the uncommon atomism found in the book and the news related to the study of movement rely on the geometrical approach on the problem of the continuum. Otherwise, the tension between mathematical exactness and the lack of accuracy of the data from experience, wich causes controversies concerning Galileo, is fundamental for understanding his proposal of a new Physics.

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“…Mas de qualquer maneira, os líquidos oferecem a chave para que Galileu explique a continuidade na matéria formada por indivisíveis 31 . 31 Mesmo que ele nunca tenha alcançado uma boa explicação para a tensão superficial. Ver MOLINA, 2006.…”

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Philosophy and Science in Leibniz

Antognazza

2016

Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz

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This paper explores the question of Leibniz's contribution to the rise of modern "science". 1 To be sure, it is now generally agreed that the modern category of "science" did not exist in the early modern period. At the same time, this period witnessed a very important stage in the process from which modern science eventually emerged. I will argue that Leibniz made a distinctive contribution to the journey from natural philosophy to natural science, and to the modern distinction between science and philosophy, through the development of a conception of physics as an autonomous enterprise. The terminology here is notoriously slippery, and some preliminary clarifications are therefore in order. When early modern authors use the word scientia, the closest translation is normally "knowledge" rather than "science". At the centre of Leibniz's scientific ambitions is a projectthe scientia generaliswhich looks prima facie very different from what we would nowadays call "science". If these authors ever drew a distinction between philosophia and scientia, it would look very different from what is now commonly meant by the distinction between philosophy and science. Similar considerations apply to the distinction between physics (intended here primarily as the study of the motion of bodies under the action of forces) and metaphysics.

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Pierre Gassendi and the birth of early modern philosophy

LoLordo

2007

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Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and Galileo

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Philosophy and Science in Leibniz

Pierre Gassendi and the birth of early modern philosophy

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