Epistemology and Natural Philosophy in the 18th Century

Epistemology and Natural Philosophy in the 18th Century

The Roots of Modern Physics

di Danilo Capecchi

ISBN 978-3-030-52851-5

Springer, 2021

This book documents the process of transformation from natural philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences until the early modern era, into modern disciplines such as mathematics, physics, natural history, chemistry, medicine and engineering. It focuses on the 18th century, which has often been considered uninteresting for the history of science, representing the transition from the age of genius and the birth of modern science (the 17th century) to the age of prodigious development in the 19th century. Yet the 18th century, the century of Enlightenment, as will be demonstrated here, was in fact characterized by substantial ferment and novelty.

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