Saure Trauben der Mathematik / Trial Ballon

[Mark Kohut]

Cassirer's major work: 
"It is the first work, in fact, to develop a detailed reading of the scientific revolution as a whole in terms of the “Platonic” idea that the thoroughgoing application of mathematics to nature (the so-called mathematization of nature) is the central and overarching achievement of this revolution. And Cassirer's insight was explicitly acknowledged by such seminal intellectual historians as E. A. Burtt,"
 
Burtt was at Cornell most of his career and while TRP was there. His Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science was even in paperback in the sixties. I posted it on the wiki as a possible
real influence on TRP for AtD at least. The mathematization of nature may be a way to state some thematic notions within AtD, imho and the puncturing of all kinds
of Platonic-like ideas is a lot of what is going on in AtD. 

From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
To: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>; "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 3, 2012 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: Saure Trauben der Mathematik / Trial Ballon


On 01.08.2012 00:19, Matthew Cissell wrote:

> As a person whose background is so heavily informed by two very different fields it is not unthinkable to speak of TP as straddling the Two Cultures gap

Like Cassirer in philosophy?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cassirer/