What is Lambert's hallmark - his characteristic as, at least, a scientific theorist? What is his enterprise characterized by? And what kind of enterprise is it, after all? Is there a thinking, in the heavyweight philosophical-historical sense of the word? Or is it only a practical rather than theoretical attitude, which spontaneously rather than methodically colors all Lambert's fields of activity as his characterizing view? There is a point in time when Lambert made certain efforts to show the less immediately visible sides of his thinking. As is known, the project of an art of invention was the most important of Lambert's last years, a project that he did not bring to publication. Before the stage of the scientific process where logic and especially mathematics are able to offer sophisticated solutions to the most thorough methodological problems, an experimental natural history of invention is Lambert's last word.
Mathematik, Erfindung und experimentelle Kenntnis bei Johann Heinrich Lambert
Enrico Pasini
2022-01-01
Abstract
What is Lambert's hallmark - his characteristic as, at least, a scientific theorist? What is his enterprise characterized by? And what kind of enterprise is it, after all? Is there a thinking, in the heavyweight philosophical-historical sense of the word? Or is it only a practical rather than theoretical attitude, which spontaneously rather than methodically colors all Lambert's fields of activity as his characterizing view? There is a point in time when Lambert made certain efforts to show the less immediately visible sides of his thinking. As is known, the project of an art of invention was the most important of Lambert's last years, a project that he did not bring to publication. Before the stage of the scientific process where logic and especially mathematics are able to offer sophisticated solutions to the most thorough methodological problems, an experimental natural history of invention is Lambert's last word.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.