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Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis
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“Mechanics... was an axiomatic construction; and... its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods.”
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: and E. J. Dijksterhuis (1963) A History of Science and Technology, vol. I: Ancient Times to the Seventeenth Century, Baltimore.
“Plato makes the cosmos a living being by investing the world-body with a world-soul.”
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[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.”
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 414; as cited in: Marleen Rozemond (2009), Descartes's Dualism. p. 235
“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.”
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modern science was born in the period beginning with Copernicus's work De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (1543) and ending with Newton's Philosophia Naturalis Philosophiae Mathematica.”
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is pointed out convincingly by George Sarton in The Life of Science that the development of science, as contrasted with that of art, is cumulative and progressive. Every scientist is educated in the current knowledge of his age and, making use of all he has learned, attempts to add something of his own to the existing body of knowledge. For this reason it is essentially impossible to isolate his personal achievements from the total pattern of scientific development. It follows that one cannot write the scientific life story of an isolated scholar, but only the history of the branches of science in which he participated.”
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the course of the fifteenth century, the sexagesimal division of the radius, in terms of which cords and goniometrical line-segments were expressed, was generally superseded, though not immediately replaced, by a decimal system of positional notation. Instead, mathematicians sought to avoid fractions by taking the Radius equal to a number of units of length of the form {\displaystyle 10^{n}} {\displaystyle 10^{n}}...The first to apply this method was the German astronomer Regiomontanus... the second half of the sixteenth and the first decades of the seventeenth century... observed of a gradual development of this method of Regiomontanus into a complete system of decimal positional fractions. Yet none of the steps taken by... writers is comparable in importance and scope with the progress achieved by Stevin in his De Thiende.”
Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (1892–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source