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| Other authors / contributors: | O'Neill, Eileen.
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| ISBN: | 0511013655
9780511013652
9781139164504
1139164503
0521772044
0521776759
9780521772044
9780521776752
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in a 2001 edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. Cavendish rejects the Aristotelianism which was taught in the universities in the seventeenth century, and the picture of nature as a grand machine which was propounded by Hobbes, Descartes and members of the Royal Society of London, such as Boyle. She also rejects the views of nature which make reference to immaterial spirits. Instead she develops an original system of organicist materialism, and draws on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy. Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of women's contributions to philosophy and science.
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| Other form: | Print version: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. Observations upon experimental philosophy. Oxford ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521772044
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