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The architecture of matter : Galileo to Kant / Thomas Holden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holden, Thomas Anand, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Matter--Constitution--History.
- Matter.
- Science--Philosophy--History.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 305 pages)
- Other Title:
- Galileo to Kant.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Holden presents a study of theories of the internal architecture of matter in the 17th & 18th centuries. He offers a synthesis of discussions by Galileo, Descartes, Newton and Kant, amongst others, and gives his own interpretation of the debate.
- Contents:
- Mating horses with griffins: the problems of material structure
- Actual parts and potential parts
- The actual parts doctrine and shortcircuit arguments
- The actual parts doctrine and the argument from composition
- The case for infinite divisibility
- The Kant-Boscovich force-shell atom theory.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160174-8
- 1-280-75416-8
- 0-19-153246-0
- 9786610754168
- 1-4356-2111-5
- OCLC:
- 922953496
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