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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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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Mathematics & science Mathematics Philosophy of mathematics

• Celý názov: Squaring the Circle
• Podnázov: The War between Hobbes and Wallis
• Autor: Douglas M. Jesseph
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 433
• EAN: 9780226399003
• ISBN: 0226399001
• ID: 04546173
• Nakladateľ: The University of Chicago Press
• Hmotnosť: 602 g
• Rozmery: 229 × 156 × 24 mm
• Dátum vydania: 01. January 2000

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