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Revolutionizing the sciences: European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700
Peter Dear
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Frontmatter
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List of Figures (page vi)
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Preface (page vii)
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Introduction: Natural Philosophy and Instrumentality (page 1)
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1 "What Was Worth Knowing" in 1500 (page 10)
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2 Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things in the Sixteenth Century (page 29)
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3 The Alchemist, the Craftsman, and the Scholar (page 47)
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4 Mathematics Challenges Philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the Mathematical Practitioners (page 64)
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5 Mechanism and Corpuscles: Descartes Builds a Universe (page 79)
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6 Extra-Curricular Activities: New Homes for Natural Knowledge (page 99)
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7 Experiment: How to Learn Things about Nature in the Seventeenth Century (page 127)
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8 Cartesians and Newtonians (page 145)
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Conclusion: What Was Worth Knowing by the Eighteenth Century (page 164)
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Notes and References (page 167)
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Documentation and Further Reading (page 176)
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Dramatis Personae (page 189)
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Glossary of Major Terms (page 193)
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Index (page 197)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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EHR | 116.469 (Nov. 2001): 1273 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1562343 |
BJHS | 37.2 (Jun. 2004): 199-200 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4028333 |
ISIS | 93.2 (Jun, 2002): 303-304 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/344993 |
PDR | 26.4 (Dec. 2000): 835-836 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/172409 |
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Published: c2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9780691142067 (paper)