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Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Overview: Contingency in Nature
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    Chapter 2 Introduction
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    Chapter 3 Contingency and Causal Determinism from Scotus to Buridan
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    Chapter 4 Monsters, Laws of Nature, and Teleology in Late Scholastic Textbooks
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    Chapter 5 Practices and Theories of Contingency in Renaissance Approaches to Nature
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    Chapter 6 “Qualis alio modo reperiri non potest.” A Few Words on Copernican Necessity
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    Chapter 7 Astrological Contingency: Between Ontology and Epistemology (1300–1600)
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    Chapter 8 Secundum Quid and Contingentia: Scholastic Reminiscences in Early Modern Mechanics
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    Chapter 9 Manipulating Matter and Its Appetites: Francis Bacon on Causation and the Creation of Preternaturals
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    Chapter 10 Descartes’ Physics in Le Monde and the Late-Scholastic Idea of Contingency
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    Chapter 11 Bacon and the Virtuosi: Experimental Contingency and Mechanical Laws in the Early Royal Society
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    Chapter 12 Necessity, Contingency, and Freedom in Descartes’ Physiology: Spontaneity in Nature
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    Chapter 13 Losing One’s Temper: Contingency in Early Modern Medicine
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    Chapter 14 The Immanent Contingency of Physical Laws in Leibniz’s Dynamics
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    Chapter 15 Ars experimentandi et conjectandi . Laws of Nature, Material Objects, and Contingent Circumstances
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Title
Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science
Published by
Springer International Publishing, September 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-67378-3
ISBNs
978-3-31-967376-9, 978-3-31-967378-3
Editors

Omodeo, Pietro Daniel, Garau, Rodolfo

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