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Книга Squaring the Circle Douglas M. Jesseph

Squaring the Circle

The War Between Hobbes and Wallis

Автор: Douglas M. Jesseph
Език: Английски език
Корици: С твърди корици
Издател: University of Chicago Press
Наличност: Очаква се допечатка
Издание 15. 06. 2026
161.84 € 316.54 лв
In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of "squaring...

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Автор
Douglas M. Jesseph
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С твърди корици
Издадена
2000
страници
424
EAN
9780226398990
Enbook ID
04546172
Издател
University of Chicago Press
Теглоt
780
Размери
154 x 278 x 28

Пълно описание

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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