The Cambridge history of science.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--History.

Science.

History.

Physical Description:

volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003-

Summary:

This volume is a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, ca. 1500-1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how new ideas, discoveries, and institutions shaped the ways in which nature came to be studied, understood, and used.

Contents:

v. 1. Ancient science / edited by Alexander Jones

v. 2. Medieval science / edited by David C. Lindberg, Michael H. Shank

v. 3. Early modern science / edited by Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston

v. 4. Eighteenth-century science / edited by Roy Porter

v. 5. The modern physical and mathematical sciences / edited by Mary Jo Nye

v. 6. The modern biological and earth sciences / edited by Peter Bowler, John Pickstone

v. 7. The modern social sciences / edited by Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross

v. 8. Modern science in national and international context / edited by David N. Livingstone, Ronald L. Numbers.

Notes:

Description based on: v. 4, published in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0521594480

0521572444

0521572436

0521571995

0521594421

9780521572019

OCLC:

45958057

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