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  title info:
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    title: architecture of matter
    sub title: Galileo to Kant
  name:
    name part: Holden, Thomas Anand.
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  name:
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  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
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    publisher: Clarendon
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
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  abstract: "A complex of interrelated problems plagued the theory of matter during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: problems concerning matter's divisibility, composition, and internal architecture. Is any material body divisible to infinity? Must we posit atoms or elemental minima from which bodies are ultimately composed? Are the parts of material bodies themselves material concreta? Or are they merely potentialities or possible existents?" "Questions such is these - and the press of subtler questions hidden in their ambiguities - deeply unsettled philosophers of the early modern period. They seemed to expose serious paradoxes in the new world view pioneered by Galileo, Descartes, and Newton. The new science's account of a fundamentally geometrical Creation, mathematicizable and intelligible to the human inquirer, seemed to be under threat. This was a great scandal, and the philosophers of the period accordingly made various attempts to disarm the paradoxes. All the great figures address the issue: most famously Leibniz and Kant, but also Galileo, Hobbes, Newton, Hume, and Reid, in addition to a crowd of lesser figures." "Thomas Holden offers a synthesis of these discussions and presents his own overarching interpretation of the controversy, locating the underlying problem in the tension between the early moderns' account of material parts on the one hand and the programme of the geometrization of nature on the other."--Jacket
  table of contents: Mating horses with griffins: the problems of material structure -- Actual parts and potential parts -- The actual parts doctrine and the argument from composition -- The case for infinite divisibility -- The Kant-Boscovich force-shell atom theory.
  note: Thomas Holden.
  note: Description absed on content as of: October 17, 2006.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-293) and index.
  note: English.
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    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
    topic: History
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  classification: Q174.8 .H64 2004
  classification: 501
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