LEADER 03511nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910438334403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-86557-2 010 $a94-007-4807-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-4807-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000309522 035 $a(EBL)1030221 035 $a(OCoLC)823384757 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000811799 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11956519 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811799 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10850600 035 $a(PQKB)10454474 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-007-4807-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1030221 035 $a(PPN)168339064 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000309522 100 $a20121106d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aScience in the age of Baroque /$fOfer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris, editors 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aNew York $cSpringer$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (307 p.) 225 1 $aArchives internationales d'histoire des idees =$aInternational archives of the history of ideas,$x0066-6610 ;$v208 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-007-9513-0 311 $a94-007-4806-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $apt. 1. Order -- pt. 2. Vision -- pt. 3. Excess. 330 $aThis volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations they share, such as the foundations of order, the power and peril of mediation and the conflation of the natural and the artificial. The essays also take on the historiographical issues involved: the characterization of culture in general and culture of knowledge in particular; the use of generalizations like ?Baroque? and the status of such categories; and the role of these in untangling the historical complexities of the tumultuous 17th century. The canonical protagonists of the ?Scientific Revolution? are considered, and so are some obscure and suppressed figures: Galileo side by side with Scheiner;Torricelli together with Kircher; Newton as well as Scilla.    The coupling of Baroque and Science defies both the still-triumphalist historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and the slight embarrassment that the Baroque represents for most cultural-national histories of Western Europe. It signals a methodological interest in tensions and dilemmas rather than self-affirming narratives of success and failure, and provides an opportunity for reflective critique of our historical categories which is valuable in its own right. 410 0$aArchives internationales d'histoire des idees ;$v208. 606 $aScience$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aCivilization, Baroque 615 0$aScience$xHistory 615 0$aCivilization, Baroque. 676 $a509.032 686 $a5,1$2ssgn 686 $aCC 3400$2rvk 686 $a8$2ssgn 701 $aGal$b Ofer$066768 701 $aChen-Morris$b Raz$01678844 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438334403321 996 $aScience in the age of Baroque$94198482 997 $aUNINA