Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in a 2001 edition, holds a unique position…
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Margaret Cavendish: Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Margaret Cavendish's 1668 edition of Observations upon Experimental Philosophy, presented here in a 2001 edition, holds a unique position in early modern philosophy. She also rejects the views of nature which make reference to immaterial spirits. Cavendish rejects the Aristotelianism which was taught in the universities in the seventeenth century, and the picture of nature as a grand machine which was propounded by Hobbes, Descartes and members of the Royal Society of London, such as Boyle.
Her treatise is a document of major importance in the history of women's contributions to philosophy and science. Instead she develops an original system of organicist materialism, and draws on the doctrines of ancient Stoicism to attack the tenets of seventeenth-century mechanical philosophy.