"The dangers inherent in the twentieth-century classifications of the ‘mechanistic’ are best illustrated by two import…"

"Plato makes the cosmos a living being by investing the world-body with a world-soul."

"[The mathematical character of Descartes' physics lies in its methodological nature, namely, the] axiomatic structure…"

"Classical mechanics is mathematical not only in the sense that it makes use of mathematical terms and methods for abb…"

"Modern science was born in the period beginning with Copernicus's work De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1543) and…"

"It is pointed out convincingly by George Sarton in The Life of Science that the development of science, as contrasted…"

"In the course of the fifteenth century, the sexagesimal division of the radius, in terms of which cords and goniometr…"

"In opposition to Mach and his fellow positivists, Dijksterhuis felt it to be his historian's duty to regard the advan…"

"Mechanics... was an axiomatic construction; and... its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods."

"Technology...has become the prime source of material change and so determines the pattern of the total social fabric."