| Center |
| Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences |
| Departament |
| Philosophy |
| Lecturers in charge |
| G2057 - FERNANDO SOLER ALVAREZ |
| Met. Docent |
| Lectures + directed reading and tutorials |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Final examination and project work |
| Bibliografia |
| MINGUEZ: De Ockham a Newton. La formación de la ciencia moderna, Cincel, Madrid, 1986. ROSSI, P.: Francis Bacon: De la magia a la ciencia, Alianza, Madrid, 1990. WESTFALL: La construcción de la ciencia moderna, Ed. Labor, Barcelona, 1980. CASINI: El universo máquina, Ed. Martínez Roca, Madrid, 1971. COHEN, I. Bernard: El nacimiento de una nueva física, Madrid, Alianza, 1985. |
| Continguts |
| 1. Factors and features of modern science. The Industrial Revolution. Barroque period (XVII) 2. F. Bacon: from magic to science. 3. Galileo: criticism on authority 4. Galileo: the experimental method. 5. Gilbert: magnetism and experimentation. 6. Descartes: principles of mechanisms. 7. Descartes: theory of whirlwinds. 8. Descartes:examples of mechanical interpretations ( Princ. Philos. IV): weight of bodies (20-27); tides (49-53) 9. Newton: the method. 10. Newton: space and time, mass and movement. 11. Newton: mechanical universe. 12. Leibniz: dynamics. 13. Biology. |
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