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Autore: | Dear Peter <1958-> |
Titolo: | Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / / Peter Dear |
Pubblicazione: | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2009 |
Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 203 p. ) : ill. ; |
Soggetto topico: | Science - Europe - History |
Science - Social aspects - History | |
Science and civilization - History | |
Science - History - Europe | |
Physical Sciences & Mathematics | |
Sciences - General | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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? |
Altri titoli varianti: | Revolutionizing the Sciences |
Titolo autorizzato: | Revolutionizing the sciences |
ISBN: | 0-691-14206-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996248182403316 |
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