03511nam 2200649 a 450 991043833440332120200520144314.01-283-86557-294-007-4807-810.1007/978-94-007-4807-1(CKB)2670000000309522(EBL)1030221(OCoLC)823384757(SSID)ssj0000811799(PQKBManifestationID)11956519(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811799(PQKBWorkID)10850600(PQKB)10454474(DE-He213)978-94-007-4807-1(MiAaPQ)EBC1030221(PPN)168339064(EXLCZ)99267000000030952220121106d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScience in the age of Baroque /Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris, editors1st ed. 2013.New York Springer20131 online resource (307 p.)Archives internationales d'histoire des idees =International archives of the history of ideas,0066-6610 ;208Description based upon print version of record.94-007-9513-0 94-007-4806-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes.pt. 1. Order -- pt. 2. Vision -- pt. 3. Excess.This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations they share, such as the foundations of order, the power and peril of mediation and the conflation of the natural and the artificial. The essays also take on the historiographical issues involved: the characterization of culture in general and culture of knowledge in particular; the use of generalizations like ‘Baroque’ and the status of such categories; and the role of these in untangling the historical complexities of the tumultuous 17th century. The canonical protagonists of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ are considered, and so are some obscure and suppressed figures: Galileo side by side with Scheiner;Torricelli together with Kircher; Newton as well as Scilla.    The coupling of Baroque and Science defies both the still-triumphalist historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and the slight embarrassment that the Baroque represents for most cultural-national histories of Western Europe. It signals a methodological interest in tensions and dilemmas rather than self-affirming narratives of success and failure, and provides an opportunity for reflective critique of our historical categories which is valuable in its own right.Archives internationales d'histoire des idees ;208.ScienceHistory17th centuryCivilization, BaroqueScienceHistoryCivilization, Baroque.509.0325,1ssgnCC 3400rvk8ssgnGal Ofer66768Chen-Morris Raz1678844MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910438334403321Science in the age of Baroque4198482UNINA