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Bruce, V., Young, A., & Chevalley, C. (1993). Physics as an Art. Aesthetics in Science (pp. 1-20). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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• TITLE: The Origin of Quantification

  AUTHORS: Edward MacKinnon

  KEYWORDS: Quantification; Early History of Physics

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol.3 No.4A, November 26, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Neither the Greek nor the Alexandrian nor the early Arabic philosopher/scientists ever developed a mathematical representation of qualities, a prerequisite for a mathematical physics. By the early seventeenth century the quantification of qualities was a common practice. This article traces the way this practice developed. It originated with a medievally theological problem and was developed by philosophical logicians who did not have mathematical physics as a goal. The verbal algebra they developed was given a mathematical formulation in the late fifteenth century. This was subsequently assimilated into a neo-Platonic revival that stressed mathematical forms. The quantification of qualities developed in physics supplied the paradigm for quantification in other fields.