{"product_id":"squaring-the-circle-the-war-between-hobbes-and-wallis-science-and-its-conceptual-foundations-series-0226399001","title":"Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0226399001\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jesseph, Douglas M.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1655, the philosopher Thomas Hobbes claimed he had solved the centuries-old problem of \"squaring of the circle\" (constructing a square equal in area to a given circle). With a scathing rebuttal to Hobbes's claims, the mathematician John Wallis began one of the longest and most intense intellectual disputes of all time. Squaring the Circle is a detailed account of this controversy, from the core mathematics to the broader philosophical, political, and religious issues at stake.Hobbes believed that by recasting geometry in a materialist mold, he could solve any geometric problem and thereby demonstrate the power of his materialist metaphysics. Wallis, a prominent Presbyterian divine as well as an eminent mathematician, refuted Hobbes's geometry as a means of discrediting his philosophy, which Wallis saw as a dangerous mix of atheism and pernicious political theory.Hobbes and Wallis's \"battle of the books\" illuminates the intimate relationship between science and crucial seventeenth-century debates over the limits of sovereign power and the existence of God.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51677943365920,"sku":"NEW0226399001","price":55.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81ZVxwj1kOL.jpg?v=1779300379","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/squaring-the-circle-the-war-between-hobbes-and-wallis-science-and-its-conceptual-foundations-series-0226399001","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}