List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction Robert S. Westman and David C. Lindberg
1. Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield: a preliminary sketch David C. Lindberg
2. Conceptions of science in the scientific revolution Ernan McMullin
3. Metaphysics and the new science Gary Hatfield
4. Proof, portics, and patronage: Copernicus's preface to De revolutionibus Robert S. Westman
5. A reappraisal of the role of the universities in the scientific revolution John Gascoigne
6. Natural magic, hermetism, and occultism in early modern science Brian P. Copenhaver
7. Natural history and the emblematic world view William B. Ashworth, Jr.
8. From the secrets of nature to public knowledge William Eamon
9. Chemistry in the scientific revolution: problems of language and communication Jan V. Golinski
10. The new philosophy and medicine in seventeenth-century England Harold J. Cook
11. Science and heterodoxy: an early modern problem reconsidered Michael Hunter
12. Infinitesimals and transcendent relations: the mathematics of motion in the late seventeenth century Michael S. Mahoney
13. The case of mechanics: one revolution or many? Alan Gabbey
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