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5 - Spinoza on Natural Science and Methodology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2021

By
Alan Gabbey
Edited by
Don Garrett
Don Garrett
Affiliation:
New York University
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This chapter locates Spinoza’s scientific interests and contributions in the context of the disciplinary categories of the seventeenth century, investigates the authorship of two small treatises (on the rainbow, and on the calculation of chances) often attributed to him, describes his scientific correspondence, evaluates his strengths and weaknesses as an expositor of Cartesian physics, assesses the role of Cartesian physics in his own philosophy, and explores his conception of methodology in the natural sciences.

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sciencephysicsnatural philosophyexperimentsmotionBoylemethod
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The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza , pp. 187 - 233
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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