An edition of Revolutionizing the sciences
(2001)
Revolutionizing the sciences
European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700
by Peter Dear
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"This is an ideal textbook on the Scientific Revolution for courses on the history of science or the history of early modern Europe. The text is chronologically arranged and fully covers both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, standing alone as an up-to-date, complete general introduction to the origins of modern science in Europe.".
"Revolutionizing the Sciences is the best available choice for teaching or learning about the developments that came to be called the Scientific Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Philosphy and operationalism
"What was worth knowing" in 1500
Humanism and ancient wisdom: how to learn things in the sixteenth century
The scholar and the craftsman: Paracelsus, Gilbert, Bacon
Mathematics challenges philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the surveyors
Mechanism: 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?
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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