This addresses the transformations of metaphysics as a discipline, the emergence of analytical mechanics, the diverging avenues of 18th-century Newtonianism, the body-mind problem, and philosophical p
Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings—among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings
Neither the development of metaphysics in all its purity during the period encompassing the three thinkers, nor the transformations that physics underwent from Newton to Lagrange or those in botany fr
The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questio
The 14 articles of this collection were offered at the December 2006 Workshop held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. Though they discuss construction of ships
