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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Preface to the Revised Edition
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. - INTRODUCTION
A. Historical Problem Suggested by the Nature of Modern Thought
B. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science the Key to this Problem
CHAPTER II. - COPERNICUS AND KEPLER
A. The Problem of the New Astronomy
B. Metaphysical Bearings of the Pre-Copernican Progress in Mathematics
C. Ultimate Implications of Copernicus’ Step–Revival of Pythagoreanism
D. Kepler’s Early Acceptance of the New World-Scheme
E. First Formulation of the New Metaphysics–Causality, Quantity, Primary and Secondary Qualities
CHAPTER III. - GALILEO
A. The Science of “Local Motion”
B. Nature as Mathematical Order–Galileo’s Method
C. The Subjectivity of Secondary Qualities
D. Motion, Space, and Time
E. The Nature of Causality–God and the Physical World–Positivism
CHAPTER IV. - DESCARTES
A. Mathematics as the Key to Knowledge
B. Geometrical Conception of the Physical Universe
C. “Res extensa” and “res cogitans”
D. Problem of Mind and Body
CHAPTER V. - SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY
A. Hobbes’ Attack on the Cartesian Dualism
B. Treatment of Secondary Qualities and Causality
C. More’s Notion of Extension as a Category of Spirit
D. The “Spirit of Nature”
E. Space as the Divine Presence
F. Barrow’s Philosophy of Method, Space, and Time
CHAPTER VI. - GILBERT AND BOYLE
A. The Non-Mathematical Scientific Current
B. Boyle’s Importance as Scientist and Philosopher
C. Acceptance and Defence of the Mechanical World View
D. Value of Qualitative and Teleological Explanations
E. Insistence on Reality of Secondary Qualities–Conception of Man
F. Pessimistic View of Human Knowledge–Positivism
G. Boyle’s Philosophy of the Ether
H. God’s Relation to the Mechanical World
I. Summary of the Pre-Newtonian Development
CHAPTER VII. - THE METAPHYSICS OF NEWTON
Section 1. Newton’s Method
Section 2. The Doctrine of Positivism
Section 3. Newton’s General Conception of the World, and of Man’s Relation to It
Section 4. Space, Time, and Mass
Section 5. Newton’s Conception of the Ether
Section 6. God–Creator and Preserver of the Order of the World
CHAPTER VIII. - CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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