This book documents the process of transformation from natural philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences until the early modern era, i

This book documents the process of transformation from natural philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences until the early modern era, i

Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first ph

This volume in the new history of Scottish philosophy covers the Scottish philosophical tradition as it developed over the eighteenth century.

This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics, mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emerg