2010 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Archimedean Science and the Scientific Revolution
verfasst von : Agamenon R. E. Oliveira
Erschienen in: The Genius of Archimedes -- 23 Centuries of Influence on Mathematics, Science and Engineering
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
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According to Richard Westfall (Westfall, 1977) the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was dominated by two themes: the Platonic-pythagorean tradition “which looked on nature in geometric terms” and mechanical philosophy “which conceived of nature as a huge machine”. This paper is an attempt to study the appropriation of Archimedean science in the Scientific Revolution in Western Europe.