IDIHCS 22126
INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Corpuscularism and laws of nature
Autor/es:
SILVIA MANZO
Lugar:
Berlín
Reunión:
Congreso; The Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting 2015; 2015
Institución organizadora:
Renaissance Society of America
Resumen:
Recent literature on the history of the concept
of the laws of nature has claimed that, compared to the
Aristotelian view of matter and metaphysics of substantial forms, the
corpuscular matter theories developed in the early modern period as a result of
the revival of ancient atomism were more consistent with the idea
of divinely imposed laws of nature. This paper will attempt to explore the
extent to which the early modern concept of the laws of nature was closely
connected to corpuscular views of matter by examining some sixteenth and
seventeenth century case studies. It will show that the organization of
corpuscular motions and processes was explained in several subtly different
ways. Although corpuscular matter theories were in many cases associated with
the idea of laws externally imposed by God to nature, alternative ways of
accounting for the motion of particles were developed in which such idea played
no role.
