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001 00109720
003 DLC
005 20081104080402.0
008 001006s2001 njua b s001 0 eng
010 $a 00109720
020 $a0691088594 (cloth)
020 $a0691088608 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae------
050 00 $aQ127.E8$bD433 2001
082 00 $a509.4/09/031$221
100 1 $aDear, Peter,$d1958-
245 10 $aRevolutionizing the sciences :$bEuropean knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 /$cPeter Dear.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c2001.
300 $aviii, 208 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: Philosophy and Operationalism 1 -- 1 "What was Worth Knowing" in 1500 10 -- 2 Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things -- in the Sixteenth Century 30 -- 3 The Scholar and the Craftsman: Paracelsus, Gilbert, Bacon 49 -- 4 Mathematics Challenges Philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and -- the Surveyors 65 -- 5 Mechanism: Descartes Builds a Universe 80 -- 6 Extra-Curricular Activities: New Homes for -- Natural Knowledge 101 -- 7 Experiment: How to Learn Things about Nature in the -- Seventeenth Century 131 -- 8 Cartesians and Newtonians 149 -- Conclusion: What was Worth Knowing by the -- Eighteenth Century? 168.
650 0 $aScience$zEurope$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/00109720.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin021/00109720.html