Abstract

Introduction PART I 1. Science and modernity PART II 2. From Augustinian synthesis to Aristotelian amalgam 3. Renaissance natural philosophies 4. The interpretation of nature and the origins of physico-theology PART III 5. Reconstructing natural philosophy 6. Reconstructing the natural philosopher 7. The aims of enquiry PART IV 8. Corpuscularianism and the rise of mechanism 9. The scope of mechanism 10. Experimental natural philosophy 11. The quantitative transformation of natural philosophy PART V 12. The unity of knowledge

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