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1892–1965 Netherlands

Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis (28 October 1892, Tilburg – 18 May 1965, De Bilt) was a Dutch historian of science.

Netherlands
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Historians

Also known as: E.J. Dijksterhuis

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Plato makes the cosmos a living being by investing the world-body with a world-soul.

Mechanics... was an axiomatic construction; and... its problem could be solved quantitatively by algebraic methods.

Robert Jacobus Forbes and E. J. Dijksterhuis (1963)

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.

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.

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