KnowraMechanical philosophyLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to Mechanical philosophy, each with the reason it gives.All 12Broader topic 1Related 6Narrower topic 2Compared with 3Scientific RevolutionRelated: It replaced many appeals to hidden qualities with explanations based on matter and motion.René DescartesRelated: Descartes’s physics helped advance mechanistic explanations of the natural world.Natural philosophyRelated: It recast nature as a system of material parts whose motions could explain observable effects.DemocritusRelated: Early modern thinkers revived explanations resembling atomism’s emphasis on material motion.Pierre GassendiRelated: His particle-based natural philosophy contributed to explanations that displaced Aristotelian forms.School of AbderaRelated: Early atomism supplied a precedent for explaining natural events without appeal to purpose.