Title:
Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.
Author:
Dear, Peter, 1958-
Publication Information:
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Call Number:
Q127.E8 D433 2009
Electronic Access:
ACLS Humanities E-Book http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.09104
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780691142067
Physical Description:
viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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?
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