Reappraisals Of The Scientific Revolution
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Author | : David C. Lindberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1990-07-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521348041 |
A compendium offering broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution from a spectrum of scholars engaged in the study of 16th and 17th century science. Many accepted views and interpretations of the scientific revolution are challenged.
Author | : Steven Shapin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2018-11-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022639848X |
This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review
Author | : Charles B. Schmitt |
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Author | : Margaret J. Osler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2000-03-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521667906 |
This book challenges the traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution, probably the single most important unifying concept in the history of science. Usually referring to the period from Copernicus to Newton (roughly 1500 to 1700), the Scientific Revolution is considered to be the central episode in the history of science, the historical moment at which that unique way of looking at the world that we call 'modern science' and its attendant institutions emerged. It has been taken as the terminus a quo of all that followed. Starting with a dialogue between Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Richard S. Westfall, whose understanding of the Scientific Revolution differed in important ways, the papers in this volume reconsider canonical figures, their areas of study, and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during this seminal period of European intellectual history.
Author | : Edwin Arthur Burtt |
Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Mikuláš Teich |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783741228 |
The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing social environment. The Scientific Revolution was marked by the global expansion of trade by European powers and by interstate rivalries for a stake in the developing world market, in which advanced medieval China, remarkably, did not participate. It is in the wake of these happenings, in Teich's original retelling, that the Thirty Years War and the Scientific Revolution emerge as products of and factors in an uneven transition in European and world history: from natural philosophy to modern science, feudalism to capitalism, the late medieval to the early modern period. ??With a narrative that moves from pre-classical thought to the European institutionalisation of science – and a scope that embraces figures both lionised and neglected, such as Nicole Oresme, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Thaddeus Hagecius, Johann Joachim Becher – The Scientific Revolution Revisited illuminates the social and intellectual sea changes that shaped the modern world.
Author | : Robin Briggs |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : A. Rupert Hall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002-04-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521892643 |
Thorough, accessible biography of the greatest English metaphysical theologian and peer of Newton.
Author | : Marcus Hellyer |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 047075477X |
This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Covers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemy. Represents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovative. Presents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of reinterpreting the Scientific Revolution.
Author | : I. Bernard Cohen |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674767782 |
Cohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they occur, their time scale, specific criteria for determining whether or not there has been a revolution, and the creative factors in producing a revolutionary new idea.