The Birth of Modern Science (Making of Europe) - Softcover

Rossi, Paolo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631227113 ISBN 13: 9780631227113

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

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Páginas:288Géneros:12:PDX:HistoryofscienceSinopsis:

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"Rossi presents in intelligent and informative ways glimpses of the worldviews, concepts, and instruments that are at the root of modern science, and how these came to be ... The book is clearly the work of a scholar who knows his materials and understands what science is all about, making it an eminently good piece of work." Choice "The greatest strength of this work comes out of Rossia s extensive and deep knowledge of the primary sources that he analyzes throughout. His discussions of key texts and of the positions of significant figures are detailed and useful. He provides clear summaries of an impressive number of texts... The nonspecialists targeted as the readers of this work will discover early modern science to be a richly complex and fascinating subject that can be studied with an abundance of primary sources." Pamela O. Long, in Isis

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This history of the birth of modern science shatters the illusion that science is a drya and divorced from culture by exploring the powerful clashes between traditions and value systems that gave rise to it. The author shows how many of the characteristics that distinguish science today emerged in the midst of the wars and plagues of the seventeenth century and defines what was new about this form of knowledge.

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• Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0631227113
• ISBN 13: 9780631227113
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288