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Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dear, Peter, 1958-
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Europe--History.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects--History.
- Science and civilization--History.
- Science and civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 203 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Other Title:
- Revolutionizing the Sciences
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-14206-8
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb09104 hdl
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