The Architecture of Matter —— Galileo to Kant

----- 物质的建筑：伽利略到康德

ISBN: 9780199263264 出版年：2005 页码：318 Holden, Thomas Clarendon Press

Thomas Holden presents a fascinating study of theories of the structure and internal architecture of matter in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Are the parts of material bodies actual or potential entities? Is matter infinitely divisible? Do all material bodies resolve to actual first parts? All the great philosophers and philosopher-scientists of the period address these issues, including Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Hume, and Kant. Holden offers a brilliant synthesis of these discussions and his own overarching interpretation of the debate.