O możliwościach i ograniczeniach matematyzacji nauk biologicznych w XVII i XVIII wieku
On the Possibilities and Limitations of the Mathematization of Biological Studies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Summary/Abstract: During the 17th and 18th centuries natural sciences were undergoing a mathematization. This process consisted, among other, in a quantitative approach to objects being researched; in delivering mathematical definitions for fundamental concepts and in shaping mathematical structures of natural sciences. The mathematization understood as a process was depended on some philosophical ideas already present in sciences, what might or might not start up the process of mathematization. Specificity of biological sciences rested on the fact they were being established by philosophical ideas, such as aristotelianism, vitalism, organicism or mechanicism, which referred to the notion of soul, will, experience.

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