Virtuosi at Work: Historical-Philosophical Essays on Causality and Methodology in the Natural Philosophy of Galileo, Huygens and Newton (2006)
Ducheyne, Steffen (Author)
Universiteit Gent (Belgium)
Physical Details: 236 pp.
Language: English
The specific aims of this dissertation are to gain insight in the concepts or/and practice of causality and methodology of the following seventeenth-century natural philosophers (or: virtuosi ): Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) and Isaac Newton (16421727), and to ascertain how they relate to the concepts from the philosophy of science on these matters. Closely connected to these aims, is the more general aim of correcting and amending our image of these natural philosophers. In Chapter 2, I shall analyse how Galileo modelled naturally accelerated motion and show how this relates to the recent literature on models. In Chapter 3, I shall show that in Galileo's natural philosophy we can see the emergence of a new idea of scientific explanation: Galileo's interventionist account of natural philosophy. In Chapter 4, I shall address Huygens's methodology in his treatment of free fall and show how it differs from Galileo's. In Chapter 5, I shall point to the necessary mathematical, conceptual and ontological prerequisites for successfully dealing with orbital motion. In Chapter 6, I shall clarify Newton's methodology in the Principia . In Chapter 7, I shall address Newton's notion and practice of unification. In Chapter 8, I shall point to the presence of a significant Aristotelian influence on Newton. In Chapter 9, I shall show that there is a fundamental difference between Newton's notion of causation in optics and his notion of causation in mechanics. Each chapter is written such that it can be read separately and each chapter addresses a concrete sub-problem relative to the specific goals. In the Peroratio (= Chapter 10), I shall reflect upon the implications for the general aim.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. C 67/04 (2006): 1032. UMI pub. no. C825909.
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