Preface.- List of Contributors.-
Introduction
Daniel Garber and Sophie Roux.-
1. The Construction of Historical Categories
Remarks on the Pre-History of the Mechanical Philosophy
Daniel Garber.- How Bacon Became Baconian
Guido Giglioni.-
An Empire Divided: French Natural Philosophy (1670-1690)
Sophie Roux.-
2. Matter, Motion, Physics and Mathematics
Matter and Form in Sixteenth-Century Spain: Some Case Studies
Victor Navarro Brotons.-
The Isomorphism of Space, Time and Matter in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
Carla Rita Palmerino.-
Beeckman, Descartes and Physico-mathematics
Frédéric de Buzon.-
Between Mathematics and Experimental Philosophy: Hydrostatics in Scotland about 1700
Antoni Malet.-
3. Mechanical Philosophy Applied
From a Metaphysical to a Scientific Object: Mechanizing Light in Galilean Science
Susana Gómez.-
Causation in Descartes' Les Météores and Late Renaissance Aristotelian Meteorology
Craig Martin.-
Descartes' Healthy Machines and the Human Exception
Gideon Manning.-
Mechanism and Surgery: Dionis' Anatomy (1690)
Jacques Lambert.-
Du Clos and the Mechanization of Chemical Philosophy
Rémi Franckowiak.-
Bibliography.- Author Index.
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