History of science and history of mathematization
the example the science of motion at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries
pp. 405-420
in: Kostas Gavroglu, Jean Christianidis, Efthymios Nicolaidis (eds), Trends in the historiography of science, Berlin, Springer, 1994Abstract
It is a historical approach whose object is to examine the precise role of mathematics and its development, as a dynamic and creative factor, in the realm of mathematical physics. Or to put it differently: