Revolutionizing the Sciences

European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700
2. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-54515-1
Verlag: Red Globe Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Peter Dear creates a fascinating picture of the origins and development of scientific thought and practice in early modern Europe. The second edition of this successful text has been updated and expanded in the light of recent scholarship, offering greater treatment of key topics such as alchemy and medicine.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dear, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.- Preface.- Introduction: Natural Philosophy and Instrumentality.- 'What Was Worth Knowing' in 1500.- Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things in the Sixteenth Century.- The Alchemist, the Craftsman and the Scholar.- Mathematics Challenges Philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the Mathematical Practitioners.- Mechanism and Corpuscles: Descartes Builds a Universe.- Extra-Curricular Activities: New Homes for Natural Knowledge.- Experiment: How to Learn Things about Nature in the Seventeenth Century.- Cartesians and Newtonians.- Conclusion: What Was Worth Knowing by the Eighteenth Century?.- Notes and References.- Documentation and Further Reading.- Dramatis Personae.- Glossary of Major Terms.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

PETER DEAR is Professor of History and of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, USA.