Archimedes’ legacy for early modern science

Historical-philosophical reflections

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11937969
AutoresRivka Feldhay (The Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen47
Número3-4
Páginas360-375
Fecha de publicación2022-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInterdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03080188.2022.2120235
OpenAlexW4313001499
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas11

The paper presents some reflections concerned with Archimedes’ legacy for the development of physico-mathematics in early modernity. First, I introduce Netz’s main themes concerned with the achievements of two generations of Greek mathematicians in their context, including some comparisons with contemporary non-Greek mathematical cultures. My paper, then, points out the necessary conditions for the historical transmission of Archimedes’ legacy on the one hand, and more generally for the mobility of bodies of knowledge on the other hand. In particular, I elaborate my perception of such transformations while focusing on four parameters for their analysis: (a) Transformations of the objects of knowledge through the gaze, the touch, as well as through linguistic or manual representations; (b) Transformations following a change in the boundaries between domains of knowledge; (c) Transformations related to the authority of particular carriers of knowledge and (d), Tansformations related to the place of knowledge

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Modernity · Perception · Sociology · Historical and Literary Studies · History · History and Theory of Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science