Mathematics and the Rise of Scientific Disciplines

世纪的“科学革命”是一个分水岭 世界文明的发展。 的主要组成部分 在当时发生的变革， 这个世界就是安德烈·科伊尔所说的自然的几何化。 为了理解科学及其发展， 我们必须了解西方自然科学如何以及为什么 哲学家们把数学作为解开秘密的钥匙 大自然 伽利略为这场革命吹响了战斗的号角， 为什么他如此感动地把数学放在这个特殊的地方？ 博士 Livesey正在调查这个问题，并找到了可能的来源 从一个最不可能的方向来，至少考虑到我们目前的情况， 预期 尽管它被认为是对科学的反感， 利弗西假设，自然的抽象化来源于 来自神学|具体来说，他在评论中发现， 在14、15和16世纪， 伦巴第的“句子”，讨论科学的本质， 允许在自然研究中使用数学。 亚里士多德，除了在非常有限的情况下，禁止在他的 “后验分析”数学在科学中的应用。 与此 李甫西博士将设法确定 运动源于这些神学评论，以创造一个 数学物理 该项目将在两个 阶段 第一阶段将审查约翰的早期评论 阅读，与奥卡姆的威廉同时代。 第二阶段 这项研究将更全面地审查后一种情况， 伽利略的发展。 这项研究有很大的希望 从根本上改变我们对人类发展过程的看法， 现代科学以及科学与宗教的关系。***

The "Scientific Revolution" of the 17th century stands as a watershed in the development of world civilization. A major component of the transformation which took place at that time in the way we look at the world is what Andre Koyre called the geometrization of nature. In order to understand science and how it has developed, it is essential that we should understand how and why Western natural philosophers turned to mathematics as the key to unlock the secrets of nature. Galileo sounded the battle cry for this revolution, but why was he so moved to put mathematics in this special place? Dr. Livesey is investigating this issue and has found a possible source coming from a most unlikely direction, at least given our current expectations. Despite its supposed antipathy to science, Dr. Livesey hypothesizes that the source of the mathematization of nature came from theology| Specifically, he has found in the commentaries in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries to a theological treatise, Peter Lombard's "Sentences," discussions of the nature of science which allowed for the use of mathematics in the study of nature. Aristotle, except in very limited circumstances, proscribed in his "Posterior Analytics" the use of mathematics in science. With this grant, Dr. Livesey will seek to determine the dimensions of the movement stemming from these theological commentaries to create a mathematical physics. The project will be carried out in two stages. The first stage will examine an early commentary by John of Reading, a contemporary of William of Ockham. The second phase of the study will be a more comprehensive examination of the later developments leading up to Galileo. This study holds great promise to radically change our view of the processes of development of modern science and of the relationship of science and religion. ***