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Revolutionizing the Sciences Peter Dear

Revolutionizing the Sciences von Peter Dear

Revolutionizing the Sciences Peter Dear


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Zusammenfassung

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.

Revolutionizing the Sciences Zusammenfassung

Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700 Peter Dear

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.

Revolutionizing the Sciences Bewertungen

'Succinct, well-organized, and clearly written, this is an excellent account of the intellectual transformation of our understanding of the natural world between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.' - Paula Findlen, Stanford University, USA. 'This book is a clear first choice for students and teachers. Incorporating cutting edge scholarship, it matches breadth of thematic coverage with clarity of exposition and takes the reader gently but firmly through the field.' - Simon Ditchfield, University of York, UK.

Über Peter Dear

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

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.

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GOR004940080
9780230545168
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Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions, 1500-1700 Peter Dear
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20081216
216
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