Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521434270 ISBN 13: 9780521434270

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of fifteen essays opens up alternative perspectives on problems associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The international authorship largely consists of scholars with established reputations, and there is an afterword by Rupert Hall.

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Críticas

"An excellent collection of essays on the history of science, 1400-1750...It especially shows how the history of science is closely related to the history of culture. Indispensable for covering previously marginalized but important material." Journal of Religious Studies

Reseña del editor

Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays which opens up alternative perspectives on some of the problems seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen in various walks of life from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the so-called 'mechanical philosophy' in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by proponents of Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Leonardo Fioravanti, Jan Swammerdam, Piero Della Francesca, Johannes Hevelius, Jonas Moore, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, Francesco Algarotti, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli. There is an introduction by the editors and an afterword by A. Rupert Hall.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521434270
• ISBN 13: 9780521434270
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 307
• Herausgeber: Field J. V., James Frank A. J. L.