Metaphysics And Measurement: Essays In Scientific Revolution (classics In The History And Philosophy Of Science)

Modern science did not spring perfect and complete, as Athena from the head of Zeus, from the minds of Galileo and Descartes. Cover......Page 1 Classics in the History and Philosophy of Science......Page 5 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 10 I.Galileo and the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century......Page 12 II.Galileo and Plato......Page 27 III.Galileo's Treatise "De Motu Gravium": The Use and Abuse of Imaginary Experiment......Page 55 IV.An Experiment in Measurement......Page 100 V.Gassendi and Science in His Time......Page 129 VI.Pascal Savant......Page 142 Index......Page 168