Revolutionizing the Sciences

European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700

Peter Dear (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2018 | 3rd edition
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-352-00313-0 (ISBN)

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This heavily revised third edition of an award-winning text offers a keen insight into the development of scientific thought in early modern Europe. Including coverage of the central scientific figures of the time, including Copernicus, Kelper, Galileo, Newton and Bacon, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how the Scientific Revolution happened and why. Highlighting Europe’s colonial and trade expansion in the sixteenth and 17th centuries, Peter Dear traces the revolution in scientific thought that changed the natural world from something to be contemplated into something to be used.

This book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Early Modern history, European history, history of medicine, history of science and technology and the history and philosophy of science. The first edition was the winner of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society.

New to this Edition:
- Greater treatment of alchemy and associated craft activities, to reflect ongoing new scholarship
- More focus on geographical issues, especially relating to Spain and its New World territories, as well as Eastern Europe, but also further afield in Islamic territories including the Ottoman Empire, and South and East Asia
- New material on the themes of ‘science and religion’, gender and class
- More extensive treatment of the relationship in this period of medicine to the various sciences and especially to new natural philosophies
- Incorporation of new scholarship throughout
- A whole chapter dedicated to Francis Bacon
- Further discussion of the gendered elements of natural philosophy
- A brand new historiographical essay

PETER DEAR is Professor of History and of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, USA.

Preface
Introduction: Natural Philosophy and Instrumentality
'What Was Worth Knowing' in 1500
Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things in the Sixteenth Century
Paracelsus and Bacon: Philosophy as Practical Knowledge
Mathematical Practitioners and Mathematical Philosophers
Mechanism and Corpuscles: Descartes Builds a Universe
Extra-Curricular Activities: New Places 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.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.12.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 232 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-352-00313-9 / 1352003139
ISBN-13	978-1-352-00313-0 / 9781352003130
Zustand	Neuware