| 书目名称 | Newton’s Sensorium: Anatomy of a Concept |
| 编辑 | Jamie C. Kassler |
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| 概述 | Affords insights into the underlying model behind Newton’s sensorium concept.Furthers understanding of both Isaac Newton and key developments in seventeenth century science.Calls certain assumptions i |
| 丛书名称 | Archimedes |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .These chapters analyze texts from Isaac Newton’s work to shed new light on scientific understanding at his time. Newton used the concept of “sensorium” in writings intended for a public audience, in relation to both humans and God, but even today there is no consensus about the meaning of his term. The literal definition of the Latin term ‘.sensorium.‘, or its English equivalent ‘sensory‘, is ‘thing that feels’ but this is a theoretical construct..The book takes readers on a process of discovery, through inquiry into both Newton’s concept and its underlying model. It begins with the human .sensorium.. This part of his concept is situated in the context of the aforesaid writings but also in the context of the writings of two of Newton‘s contemporaries, the physicians William Briggs and Thomas Willis, both of whom were at the forefront of their respective specialties of ophthalmology and neurology. Only once the human .sensorium. has been explored is it possible to generalize to the unobservable divine .sensorium., because Newton‘s method of reasoning from experience requires that the second part of his concept is last in the order of knowledge. And the reason for this sequence is t |
| 出版日期 | Book 2018 |
| 关键词 | Newton‘s sensorium concept, human and divine; Physiological optics and optical processes; Physiology o |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72053-1 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-10152-7 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-72053-1Series ISSN 1385-0180 Series E-ISSN 2215-0064 |
| issn_series | 1385-0180 |
| copyright | Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 |
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