| Topics
Frameworks of understanding for natural
philosophy
What does a framework do
Qualitative
Quantitative / mathematized
Forms of mathematization
Rational mechanics
Laplacian physics
Differences, similarities, and confrontations
Making frameworks persuasive: institutional
supports
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Names and terms
subtle (or imponderable) fluids
rational mechanics
Jean Lerond d'Alembert
Leonhard Euler
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827)
Charles Augustin Coulomb, Coulomb's law
capillary action
Paris Academy of Sciences
Ecole Polytechnique (roughly Polytechnical
Institute) |
