Code
3F027311
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- Theory and methodology of philosophy
- Philosophy
- Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
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Natural sciences
- History and foundations
Keywords
eighteenth century science
natural philosophy
eighteenth century philosophy
history of optics
mathematisation
history of philosophy
Newtonianism
Leonhard Euler
Project description
This project investigates the relationship between natural philosophy and philosophical developments of scientific criteria in the optics of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). The central questions are: (i) Did Euler's account of optics, as well as his mathematisation of nature, lead to changes in the role of natural philosophy? (ii) Was the modern seperation of natural philosophy and science a consequence of this?