Author: Barry, James, Jr.
Title: Measures of Science: Theological and Technological Impulses in Early Modern Thought
Description: Evanston [IL], Northwestern Univ. Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xii, 210 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Descartes's Rectification of Natural Appearance: Thinking Over Perception; Modern Science as Technical Intervention: Bacon's Promethean Measure; Newton's Perceptual Authority & the Decisiveness of Technical Appearance.

Keywords: Philosophy of Science, Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, , , , ,