Procedures and Metaphysics: A Study in the Philosophy of Mathematical-physical Science in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesUniversity of California Press, 1936 - 301 Seiten |
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CHAPTER PAGE | 1 |
Metaphysical Mathematics | 15 |
The Scientific Thought of Italian Mathemati | 47 |
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