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Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making

By Klaas van Berkel, Maarten Ultee (Translator)
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By Klaas van Berkel, Maarten Ultee (Translator)
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Explore the work of a founding father of the mechanical philosophy of nature, Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637).

The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific thought has never been properly acknowledged. Surprisingly free from the constraints of traditional natural philosophy, he developed a view of the world in which everything, from the motion of the heavens to musical harmonies, is explained by reducing it to matter in motion. His ideas deeply inf...

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