Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 /
| Основен автор: | Dear, Peter Robert. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2001.
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Съдържание:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Philosophy and Operationalism 1
- 1 "What was Worth Knowing" in 1500 10
- 2 Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things
- in the Sixteenth Century 30
- 3 The Scholar and the Craftsman: Paracelsus, Gilbert, Bacon 49
- 4 Mathematics Challenges Philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and
- the Surveyors 65
- 5 Mechanism: Descartes Builds a Universe 80
- 6 Extra-Curricular Activities: New Homes for
- Natural Knowledge 101
- 7 Experiment: How to Learn Things about Nature in the
- Seventeenth Century 131
- 8 Cartesians and Newtonians 149
- Conclusion: What was Worth Knowing by the
- Eighteenth Century? 168.