Table of Contents

Do Historians and Philosophers of Science Share the Same Heritage?.- I.- Conceptual and Technical Aspects of the Galilean Geometrization of the Motion of Heavy Bodies.- The Galilean Geometrization of Motion: Some Historical Considerations.- Measure, Proportion and Mathematical Structure of Galileo’s Mechanics.- II.- Space, Geometrical Objects and Infinity: Newton and Descartes on Extension.- Finite and Otherwise. Aristotle and Some Seven- teenth Century Views.- III.- The Ideal of the Mathematization of All Sciences and of `More Geometrico’ in Descartes and Leibniz.- The “More Geometrico” Pattern in Hypotheses from Descartes to Leibniz.- The Leibnizean Picture of Descartes.- IV.- Force and Inertia: Euler and Kant’s Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science.- Kant on the Foundations of Science.- Non-mechanistic Ideas in Physics and Philosophy: From Newton to Kant.- V.- V. V. Petrov’s Hypothetical Experiment and Electrical Experiments of the 18th Century.- The Ideal of Mathematization in B. Bolzano.- “Die schönste Leistung der allgemeinen Relativitäts- theorie”: The Genesis of the Tensor-Geometrical Conception of Gravitation.