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His conception of mechanical philosophy' became influential in nineteenth-century British physics.
He adhered to the tenets of the mechanical philosophy of his time.
The requirements of the mechanical philosophy, in the view of Huygens, were stringent.
The natural philosophers directly concerned with developing the mechanical philosophy were largely a French group, together with some of their personal connections.
Descartes espoused mechanical philosophy, a form of natural philosophy popular in the 17th century.
Among the main changes are the mechanical philosophy, the chemical philosophy, empiricism, and the increasing role of mathematics.
She rejected the Aristotelianism and mechanical philosophy of the seventeenth century, preferring a vitalist model instead.
The mechanical philosophy of the 17th century sought to explain life as a system of parts that operate or interact like those of a machine.
Contemporary usage of "mechanical philosophy" dates back to 1952 and Marie Boas Hall.
The unifying principle that would eventually lead to the acceptance of a hybrid corpuscular-atomism was mechanical philosophy, which became widely accepted by physical sciences.
In "mechanical philosophy" no field or action at a distance is permitted, particles or corpuscles of matter are fundamentally inert.
Indeed, in a time where many scientists were still holding fast to the ideals of mechanical philosophy, Bradley turned to empirical studies and experiments for his work.
Descartes's mechanical philosophy will be examined in detail in Chapter IV.
As we listened to his exposition, it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance.
The first part of his thesis has been criticized for insufficient consideration of the roles of mathematics and the mechanical philosophy in the scientific revolution.
A System of Mechanical Philosophy, Vol.
Elements of Mechanical Philosophy (Boston, 1852)
They can also be compared to the corpuscles of the Mechanical Philosophy of René Descartes and others.
For Descartes, matter has only the property of extension, so its only activity aside from locomotion is to exclude other bodies: this is the mechanical philosophy.
In France the mechanical philosophy spread mostly through private academies and salons; in England in the Royal Society.
Most European universities taught a Cartesian form of mechanical philosophy in the early 18th century, and only slowly adopted Newtonianism in the mid-18th century.
John Henry Pratt in Mathematical Principles of Mechanical Philosophy (1836) returned to the topic, clarifying it.
In response to the mechanical philosophy, More proposed a "Hylarchic Principle", and Cudworth a concept of "Plastic Nature".
Outlines of a Course of Lectures on Mechanical Philosophy, Edinburgh, J. Brown, 1803.
The growing importance of natural theology, partly a response to the rise of mechanical philosophy, encouraged the growth of natural history (although it entrenched the teleological argument).