Squaring the Circle

Name: Squaring the Circle
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The War between Hobbes and Wallis

Autor: Douglas M. Jesseph

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In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of "squaring...

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Autor

Douglas M. Jesseph

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2000

Stránek

433

EAN

9780226399003

ISBN

0226399001

Enbook ID

04546173

Vydavatel

The University of Chicago Press

Hmotnost

602

Rozměry

156 x 229 x 24

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In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of "squaring of the circle" (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis began one of the longest and most intense intellectual disputes of all time. This book presents an account of the controversy, from the core mathematics to the broader philosophical, political and religious issues at stake. Hobbes believed that by recasting geometry in a materialist mold, he could solve any geometric problem and thereby demonstrate the power of his materialist metaphysics. Wallis, a prominent Presbyterian divine as well as an eminent mathematician, refuted Hobbes's geometry as a means of discrediting his philosophy, which Wallis saw as a dangerous mix of atheism and pernicious political theory. Hobbes and Wallis's "battle of the books" illuminates the intimate relationship between science and crucial 17th-century debates over the limits of sovereign power and the existence of God.

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