Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.
- Dear, Peter, 1958-
- Date:
- [2009], ©2009
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Publication/Creation
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009], ©2009.
Physical description
viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series
Edition
2nd ed.
Contents
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?
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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