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John Locke and natural philosophy /
Peter Anstey presents a thorough and innovative study of John Locke's views on the method and content of natural philosophy. Focusing on Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding, but also drawing extensively from his other writings and manuscript remains, Anstey argues that Locke was a...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Natural philosophy
- 2. Corpuscular pessimism
- 3. Natural history
- 4. Hypothese and analogy
- 5. Vortices, the deluge, and cohesion
- 6. Mathematics
- 7. Demonstration
- 8. Explanation
- 9. Iatrochemistyr
- 10. Generation
- 11. Species