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Petrus Van Musschenbroek (1692-1761) on the scope of physica and its place within philosophia

As a supplement to John L. Heilbron’s account, I will argue that, although the label ‘experimental physics’ can be rightfully used to describe aspects of Petrus van Musschenbroek’s (1692-1761) work, the latter’s understanding of ‘physica’ is to be situated within a broader framework in which theological, philosophical and teleological consideration...

Dificultades con Physica II 4: la confrontación dialéctica de Aristóteles con las opiniones precedentes sobre el azar y ...

En este artículo se examina la exposición crítica de los tres grupos de opiniones sobre el azar que Aristóteles presenta en Physica [Phys.] II 4 y se pregunta por la identidad de sus portavoces. Aristóteles confronta tres creencias establecidas de acuerdo con las cuales: i) nada sucede por azar; ii) el azar es el origen de todas las cosas; iii) el ...

Nature’s drawing: problems and resolutions in the mathematization of motion

Published in Synthese

The mathematical nature of modern science is an outcome of a contingent historical process, whose most critical stages occurred in the seventeenth century. ‘The mathematization of nature’ (Koyré 1957, From the closed world to the infinite universe, 5) is commonly hailed as the great achievement of the ‘scientific revolution’, but for the agents aff...