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How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough / / H. Floris Cohen



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Autore: Cohen H. F Visualizza persona
Titolo: How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough / / H. Floris Cohen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam University Press, 2010
Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2010
©2010
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  Visualizza cluster
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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