Formal causes and mechanical causes: the analogy of the musical instruments in late seventeenth-century natural philosophy

• Autores: Benjamin Wardhaugh
• Localización: Philosophies of technology: Francis Bacon and his contemporaries / coord. por Claus Zittel, Vol. 2, 2008 (Volume two), ISBN 978-90-04-17050-6, págs. 411-428
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Newton: harmony as formal cause -- Hooke, Boyle and others: harmony as analogy for efficient causes: Mechanical causes; Non-mechanical causes; Diversity and ambivalence -- Conclusions -- Selective bibliographie