Descartes on seeing : epistemology and visual perception / by Wolf-Devine, Celia, 1942-

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A Social History of Truth : Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. by Shapin, Steven

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Casualties of credit : the English financial revolution, 1620-1720 / by Wennerlind, Carl

Table of Contents: “…The scarcity of money problem and the birth of English political economy -- The alchemical foundations of credit -- The epistemology of credit -- Capital punishment in defense of credit -- Public credit and the public sphere -- The South Sea Company and the restoration of public credit.…”
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Measuring the distance between Locke and Toland : reason, revelation, and rejection during the Locke-Stillingfleet debate / by Marko, Jonathan S.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Locke-Stillingfleet controversy : from false start to footing for exploring Locke's and Toland's epistemologies -- Locke's incorporation of faith and revelation within reason -- Toland's incorporation of faith and revelation within reason -- Conclusions and implications.…”
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Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / by Martin, Craig, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.…”
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The bloomsbury companion to locke /

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Arminius on the assurance of salvation : the context, roots, and shape of the Leiden debate, 1603-1609 / by Stanglin, Keith D.

Table of Contents: “…Methodology and Outline; PART ONE: BACKGROUND OF THE DEBATE; CHAPTER TWO: ARMINIUS AND HIS ACADEMIC CONTEXT; PART TWO: THE ONTOLOGY OF SALVATION; CHAPTER THREE: GRACE, PREDESTINATION, AND THE ORDO SALUTIS; CHAPTER FOUR: SANCTIFICATION, PERFECTION, AND APOSTASY; PART THREE: THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF SALVATION; CHAPTER FIVE: THE UNDERMINING OF ASSURANCE; CHAPTER SIX: THE GROUNDING OF ASSURANCE.…”
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The language of nature : reassessing the mathematization of natural philosophy in the 17th century /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, and Edward Slowik -- Reading the book of nature : the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of Galileo's mathematical realism / Carla Rita Palmerino -- "The marriage of physics with mathematics" : Francis Bacon on measurement, mathematics, and the construction of a mathematical physics / Dana Jalobeanu -- On the mathematization of free fall : Galileo, Descartes, and a history of misconstrual / Richard T.W. …”
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The Logic and Methodology of Science in Early Modern Thought : Seven Studies.

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Translation at work : Chinese medicine in the first global age /

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Lines of thought : discourse, architectonics, and the origin of modern philosophy / by Brodsky, Claudia, 1955-

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Philosophies of technology : Francis Bacon and his contemporaries /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Volume -- One -- Notes on the Editors of this Volume -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction (Claus Zittel) -- Part I -- Beginnings -- Chapter 1 -- "Industrious Observations, Grounded Conclusions, and Profi table Inventions and Discoveries; the Best State of That Province": Technology and Culture during Francis Bacon's Stay in France -- Chapter 2 -- Francis Bacon's Scientia Operativa, The Tradition of the Workshops, and The Secrets of Nature -- Chapter 3 -- Technical Knowledge and the Advancement of Learning: Some Questions about 'Perfectibility' and 'Invention' -- Chapter 4 -- The Weatherglass and its Observers in the Early Seventeenth Century -- Part II -- Bacon: Mechanics, Instruments and Utopias -- Chapter 5 -- The Role of Mechanics in Francis Bacon's Great Instauration -- Chapter 6 -- Bacon's Brotherhood and its Classical Sources: Producing and Communicating Knowledge in the Project of the Great Instauration -- Chapter 7 -- The Whale under the Microscope: Technology and Objectivity in Two Renaissance Utopias -- Volume -- 2 -- Part III -- Metaphoric Models -- Chapter 8 -- The Role of Metaphors in William Harvey's Thought -- Chapter 9 -- Legitimating the Machine: The Epistemological Foundation of Technological Metaphor in the Natural Philosophy of Ren233; Descartes -- Chapter 10 -- Descartes as Bricoleur -- Part IV -- Bacon's Legacy: The Impact for the Arts and Sciences -- Chapter 11 -- The Poet and the Philosopher: Francis Bacon and Georg Philipp Harsdrffer -- Chapter 12 -- Formal Causes and Mechanical Causes: The Analogy of the Musical Instrument in Late Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy -- Chapter 13 -- The Modern Wonder and its Enemies: Courtly Innovations in the Spanish Renaissance -- Chapter 14 -- The Gap between Theory and Practice: Hydrodynamical and Hydraulical Utopias in the 18th Century -- Chapter 15 -- Sentimental Hydraulics: Utopia and Technology in 18th-Century France -- Chapter 16 -- History Redoubled: The Synthesis of Facts in Linnaean Natural History -- Chapter 17 -- Rescue Attempts: Scientific Images and the Mysteries of Power in the Era of Louis XIV -- Index Nominum.…”
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Assembling the tropics : science and medicine in Portugal's empire, 1450-1700 / by Cagle, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Cosmographic Inscriptions and Intertropical PossibilitiesPart II The Indian Ocean World, 1500-1600; 3 Itineraries and Inventories; No Bells to Honor the Dead; Fluvial Disarray, Medical Emergency; Partial Perspectives; Cartographies of Natural History; Epistemologies of the Pepper Trade; 4 Drug Traffic; Lost in Translation; Language, Novelty, and Global Order; Empiricism by the Book; Global Trade and the Limits of Experience; The Politics of Depiction; 5 Facts and Fictions; A Temple on the Mainland; Rumor Has It; Agnotology and a Subversive Leaf; India House; Where the Truth Lies.…”
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The sovereign and the prophets : Spinoza on Grotian and Hobbesian biblical argumentation / by Fukuoka, Atsuko

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction: Hobbes's Biblical Interpretation and the Dutch2 Part III of Leviathan: Its Purpose; 3 Hobbesian Sacred History; 4 The Epistemological Critique of Revelation; 5 The Sovereign: Supreme Pastor and Sovereign Prophet; Chapter 3 The Bible as Shared Political Paradigm; 1 Introduction: Into the 'Web' of Interpretations; 2 Tremellius, Junius, and Walaeus: The Distinction between Priests and Judges; 3 Grotius: The Great Sanhedrin; 4 Hobbes: High Priest as Sovereign; 5 Van Velthuysen and Du Bois: A Cartesian Twist; 6 The Brothers De la Court: The Great (Republican) Sanhedrin…”
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Descartes's Moral Theory / by Marshall, John, 1933-

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Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility / by Chen-Morris, Raz

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Descartes's Moral Theory / by Marshall, John

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Visions of the courtly body : the patronage of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, and the triumph of painting at the Stuart Court / by Hille, Christiane

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Regimens of the mind : Boyle, Locke, and the early modern cultura animi tradition / by Corneanu, Sorana

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The quest for certainty in early modern Europe from inquisition to inquiry, 1550-1700 /

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