Zitate von Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
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Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
Geburtstag: 28. Oktober 1892
Todesdatum: 18. Mai 1965
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis war ein niederländischer Wissenschaftshistoriker. Dijksterhuis ist vor allem mit seinen Arbeiten zu Archimedes und mit der historischen Studie Die Mechanisierung des Weltbildes über die Frühgeschichte der Mechanik bekannt geworden. Wikipedia
Photo: Unknown photographer, Studium 2013 / Public domain
Zitate Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
„[The mathematical character of Descartes' physics lies in its methodological nature, namely, the] axiomatic structure of the whole system, in the establishment of indubitable foundations and the deduction of the phenomena.“
Quelle: The mechanization of the world picture, 1961, p. 414; as cited in: Marleen Rozemond (2009), Descartes's Dualism. p. 235
„Plato makes the cosmos a living being by investing the world-body with a world-soul.“
Quelle: The mechanization of the world picture, 1961, p. 15
„Mechanics… was an axiomatic construction; and… its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods.“
Robert Jacobus Forbes and E. J. Dijksterhuis (1963) A History of Science and Technology, vol. I: Ancient Times to the Seventeenth Century, Baltimore.
„Classical mechanics is mathematical not only in the sense that it makes use of mathematical terms and methods for abbreviating arguments which might, if necessary, also be expressed in the language of everyday speech; it is so also in the much more stringent sense that its basic concepts are mathematical concepts, that mechanics itself is a mathematics.“
Quelle: The mechanization of the world picture, 1961, p. 499
