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This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition, which look on nature in geometric terms, and the mechanical philosophy which conceived of nature as a huge machine.Westfall, Richard S. is the author of 'Construction of Modern Science Mechanisms and Mechanics', published 1978 under ISBN 9780521292955 and ISBN 0521292956.
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