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Baroque science / Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) Q127.E85 G35 2013
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LIBRA Q127.E85 G35 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gal, Ofer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History--17th century.
- Science.
- History.
- Mathematics--History--17th century.
- Mathematics.
- Optics--History--17th century.
- Optics.
- Discoveries in science--History--17th century.
- Discoveries in science.
- Science--Philosophy--History--17th century.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Observation : Science's disappearing observer: baroque optics and the enlightenment of vision
- Per aenigmate: mirrors and lenses as cognitive tools in medieval and renaissance Europe
- The specter of the telescope: radical instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke
- Mathematization: Nature's drawing: problems and resolutions in the mathematization of motion
- From divine order to human approximation: mathematics in baroque science
- The emergence of baroque mathematical natural philosophy: an archeology of the inverse square law
- Passions: Passions, imagination, and the persona of the new savant.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226923987
- 0226923983
- OCLC:
- 783150181
- Publisher Number:
- 40022059878
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