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Mechanism and Materialism

Part of Princeton Legacy Library • Book 1 of 73
byRobert E Schofield
346 pagesPaperbacknewMar 2015
Volume 1 of 25 in Princeton Legacy Library
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Robert Schofield explores the rational elements of British experimental natural philosophy in the 18th century by tracing the influence of two opposing concepts of the nature of matter and its action--mechanism and materialism.

Both concepts rested on the Newtonian interpretation of their proponents, although each deve

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ISBN-13
9780691621241
Format
Paperback
Pages
346
Condition
new
Published
8 March 2015

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