The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe :
Dear, Peter
The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe : readings from Isis / edited by Peter Dear. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997. - 337 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory / Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe / "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors": Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England / What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution? / Galileo, Motion, and Essences / Science and Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope / The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century / Descartes on Refraction: Scientific versus Rhetorical Method / Early Seventeenth-Century Atomism: Theory, Epistemology, and the Insufficiency of Experiment / Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century / Newton's Alchemy and His Theory of Matter / Peter Dear -- Robert S. Westman -- Owen Hannaway -- Lesley B. Cormack -- Keith Hutchison -- Margaret J. Osler -- Richard S. Westfall -- Albert Van Helden -- Bruce Stansfield Eastwood -- Christoph Meinel -- Thomas S. Kuhn -- B. J. T. Dobbs -- Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society / The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England / Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science / Articles on Early Modern European Science in Isis, 1970-1996. Peter Dear -- Steven Shapin -- Londa Schiebinger -- Appendix.
This collection of readings on what is often called the "Scientific Revolution" brings together fourteen articles from the leading journal in the history of science, and combines traditional scholarship with revisionist approaches to the major themes of the period. This carefully-structured collection will help readers (students and specialists alike) approach complex questions - involving argument and experiment, audience and agency, authority and institutions - that surround this crucial era.
0226139468 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226139476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
96042535
Isis (Egyptian deity)
Science--History--Europe--16th century.
Science--History--Europe--17th century.
Q125 / .S4357 1997
500.2/094/09031
The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe : readings from Isis / edited by Peter Dear. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997. - 337 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory / Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe / "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors": Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England / What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution? / Galileo, Motion, and Essences / Science and Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope / The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century / Descartes on Refraction: Scientific versus Rhetorical Method / Early Seventeenth-Century Atomism: Theory, Epistemology, and the Insufficiency of Experiment / Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century / Newton's Alchemy and His Theory of Matter / Peter Dear -- Robert S. Westman -- Owen Hannaway -- Lesley B. Cormack -- Keith Hutchison -- Margaret J. Osler -- Richard S. Westfall -- Albert Van Helden -- Bruce Stansfield Eastwood -- Christoph Meinel -- Thomas S. Kuhn -- B. J. T. Dobbs -- Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society / The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England / Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science / Articles on Early Modern European Science in Isis, 1970-1996. Peter Dear -- Steven Shapin -- Londa Schiebinger -- Appendix.
This collection of readings on what is often called the "Scientific Revolution" brings together fourteen articles from the leading journal in the history of science, and combines traditional scholarship with revisionist approaches to the major themes of the period. This carefully-structured collection will help readers (students and specialists alike) approach complex questions - involving argument and experiment, audience and agency, authority and institutions - that surround this crucial era.
0226139468 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226139476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
96042535
Isis (Egyptian deity)
Science--History--Europe--16th century.
Science--History--Europe--17th century.
Q125 / .S4357 1997
500.2/094/09031