Peter Dear creates a fascinating picture of the origins and development of scientific thought and practice in early modern Europe. The second edition of this successful text has been updated and expanded in the light of recent scholarship, offering greater treatment of key topics such as alchemy and medicine.
Peter Dear creates a fascinating picture of the origins and development of scientific thought and practice in early modern Europe. The second edition of this successful text has been updated and expanded in the light of recent scholarship, offering greater treatment of key topics such as alchemy and medicine.
PETER DEAR is Professor of History and of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, USA.
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List of Figures. Preface. 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?. Notes and References. Documentation and Further Reading. Dramatis Personae. Glossary of Major Terms. Index.
List of Figures. Preface. 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?. Notes and References. Documentation and Further Reading. Dramatis Personae. Glossary of Major Terms. Index.
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