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Revolutionizing the sciences: European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700

Peter Dear
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures (page vi)
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Introduction: Natural Philosophy and Instrumentality (page 1)
  • 1 "What Was Worth Knowing" in 1500 (page 10)
  • 2 Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things in the Sixteenth Century (page 29)
  • 3 The Alchemist, the Craftsman, and the Scholar (page 47)
  • 4 Mathematics Challenges Philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the Mathematical Practitioners (page 64)
  • 5 Mechanism and Corpuscles: Descartes Builds a Universe (page 79)
  • 6 Extra-Curricular Activities: New Homes for Natural Knowledge (page 99)
  • 7 Experiment: How to Learn Things about Nature in the Seventeenth Century (page 127)
  • 8 Cartesians and Newtonians (page 145)
  • Conclusion: What Was Worth Knowing by the Eighteenth Century (page 164)
  • Notes and References (page 167)
  • Documentation and Further Reading (page 176)
  • Dramatis Personae (page 189)
  • Glossary of Major Terms (page 193)
  • Index (page 197)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
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
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691142067 (paper)
Subject
  • Science & Technology
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