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Article: Physics
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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PHYSICS
PHYSICS.
Physics, as a structured mathematical and experimental investigation into the fundamental constituents and laws of the natural world, was not recognized as a discipline until late in the early modern period. Derived from the Greek word meaning 'to grow', in
ancient and medieval times "physics" (or "natural philosophy") was concerned with the investigation of the qualitative features of any natural phenomena (psychological, chemical, biological, meteorological, etc.) and was often guided by the metaphysical and epistemological tenets set out in the physical books of the Aristotelian corpus. These included the idea of the cosmos as a finite sphere in which no void or ...
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