How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough / / H. Floris Cohen
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| Autore: |
Cohen H. F
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| Titolo: |
How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough / / H. Floris Cohen
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam University Press, 2010 |
| Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2010 | |
| ©2010 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (825 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 509.409032 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science, Ancient |
| Science - Europe - History | |
| Science - History | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | geschiedenis |
| history | |
| science | |
| wetenschap | |
| Christiaan Huygens | |
| Galileo Galilei | |
| Isaac Newton | |
| Mathematical sciences | |
| René Descartes | |
| Classificazione: | TB 2355 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [743]-765) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. I. Nature-knowledge in traditional society -- pt. II. Three revolutionary transformations -- pt. III. Dynamics of the revolution. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Once, the concept of 'the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was innovative and inspiring, yielding what is still the master narrative of the rise of modern science. That narrative, however, has turned into a straitjacket-so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. Even so, in Floris Cohen's view neither the early, theory-centered historiography nor present-day contextual and practice-oriented approaches compel us to drop the concept altogether. Instead, he offers here a narrative restructured from the ground up, by means of a comprehensive approach, sustained comparisons, and a tenacious search for underlying patterns. Key to his analysis is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct, yet tightly interconnected revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five-to-thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world.' |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How modern science came into the world |
| ISBN: | 1-282-98531-0 |
| 9786612985317 | |
| 90-485-1273-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910141044603321 |
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