J. A. Schuster. “What Was Physico-mathematics and What did it Have to do with the Scientific Career of René Descartes?” Followed by an interactive seminar: “Explaining the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth-Century: The Problem and Promise of the Category ‘Natural Philosophy”.

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J. A. Schuster. “What Was Physico-mathematics and What did it Have to do with the Scientific Career of René Descartes?” Followed by an interactive seminar: “Explaining the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth-Century: The Problem and Promise of the Category ‘Natural Philosophy”.
[Prague, 17.05.2019-17.05.2019, (W-WRD 12/2)]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-05919S
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : physico-mathematics * Descartes * scientific revolution
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Discussion of the origin of physico-mathematics in the 17th century and its connection with the scientific career of René Descartes. Proposal to explain the so-called scientific revolution in the 17th century against the backdrop of competing projects of “natural philosophy”.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0301201