Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / / Peter Dear

• Autore: Dear Peter <1958->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.