10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VACUIST»
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1
Much Ado about Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from ...
the vacuist position concerning the fundamental phenomena of condensation
and rarefaction. His interpretations, along with Averroes' comments and
elaborations, served as the basis of the plenist position until challenged in the
sixteenth ...
2
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the ...
Plenist accounts of the pump were superior to Boyle's, and Hobbes attacked
Boyle as a vacuist despite the latter's professions of nescience on the vacuist-
plenist debates of the past. Of greater epistemological importance was Hobbes's
attack ...
Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, 2011
3
Esprit généreux, esprit pantagruélicque: essays by his ...
The title-page of Pasca1's first vacuist text, Experiences nou- velles touchant le
vide, registers its double engagement with space by announcing a « discourse »
that demonstrates «what force is necessary to create this vacuum » [« quelle
force ...
Reinier Leushuis, Zahi Anbra Zalloua, 2008
4
Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy And Science: Atomism for ...
Like the vacuist argument of his account, the atmospheric pressure argument
relates a discovery task. Here, too, the assumptions are contingent and attained
by induction, based on the iterative collection of data at various elevations.
Hence ...
5
On Shmuel Hugo Bergman's Philosophy
In rare but crucial cases the situation is different: mechanistic biologists found it
imperative to master What Is Life? by vitalist Erwin Schrodinger, plenist physicists
admired vacuist Newton despite disagreement, and the prevalence of vacuism in
...
Abraham Zvie Bar-On, 1986
6
Newton and Russia: the early influence, 1698-1796
The dialogue is between a Plenist, a Vacuist, and a student, but for all its show of
objectivity Richmann's own predilections are obvious enough. As the introductory
comments imply, the essay was really aimed against the Newtonians, those ...
7
The Works ... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author. A ...
And a vacuist may tell you, that, provided the strength employed to draw up the
superior marble be great enough to surmount the weight of the aerial corpuscles
accumulated upon it, the divulsion would ensue, though, by divine Omnipotence,
...
The real reasons for Hobbes's shift from vacuist to plenist are to be found in
experimental physics — experiments in which his friend Roberval was closely
involved. Information about the Torricellian barometric experiment (in which a
tube of ...
9
The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ...
See Mauritanians. VACUUM, n. s. ~v Lat. vacuum. Space un- Vac'ijist, ' occupied
by matter: va- Vacu'ity, Acuity has also this sense, Vac'ugus, adj. J and is applied
metaphorically to inanity of mind or character : a vacuist is a philosopher who ...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
10
Newton and the Theory of Matter
Here we see Newton setting out in unmistakable language the structure of
second- order mechanical explanation, which is mathematical and vacuist.9 To
those, thirdly, we might add the already quoted proclamation of Newton's
atomism in ...
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