Squaring the Circle: The War Between Hobbes and WallisUniversity of Chicago Press, 1999 - 419 من الصفحات In 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of "squaring of the circle" (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis began one of the longest and most intense intellectual disputes of all time. Squaring the Circle is a detailed account of this controversy, from the core mathematics to the broader philosophical, political, and religious issues at stake. Hobbes believed that by recasting geometry in a materialist mold, he could solve any geometric problem and thereby demonstrate the power of his materialist metaphysics. Wallis, a prominent Presbyterian divine as well as an eminent mathematician, refuted Hobbes's geometry as a means of discrediting his philosophy, which Wallis saw as a dangerous mix of atheism and pernicious political theory. Hobbes and Wallis's "battle of the books" illuminates the intimate relationship between science and crucial seventeenth-century debates over the limits of sovereign power and the existence of God. |
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CHAPTER | 1 |
CHAPTER | 48 |
CHAPTER THREE | 73 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 131 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 189 |
CHAPTER | 247 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 293 |
Persistence in Error | 340 |
APPENDIX | 357 |
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