The Cambridge Histroy of Science, Volume 3 - Early Modern Science

By: Ed. by Katharine, ParkContributor(s): Ed. by Daston, LorraineMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: NewYork: Cambridge University Press, [c2006]Description: 865 pISBN: 9780521572446
Contents:
1 - Introduction: The Age of the New Part I - The New Nature 2 - Physics and Foundations 3 - Scientific Explanation from Formal Causes to Laws of Nature 4 - The Meanings of Experience 5 - Proof and Persuasion Part II - Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge 6 - The Man of Science 7 - Women of Natural Knowledge 8 - Markets, Piazzas, and Villages 9 - Homes and Households 10 - Libraries and Lecture Halls 11 - Courts and Academies 12 - Anatomy Theaters, Botanical Gardens, and Natural History Collections 13 - Laboratories 14 - Sites of Military Science and Technology 15 - Coffeehouses and Print Shops 16 - Networks of Travel, Correspondence, and Exchange Part III - Dividing the Study of Nature 17 - Natural Philosophy 18 - Medicine 19 - Natural History 20 - Cosmography 21 - From Alchemy to “Chymistry” 22 - Magic 23 - Astrology 24 - Astronomy 25 - Acoustics and Optics 26 - Mechanics 27 - The Mechanical Arts 28 - Pure Mathematics Part IV - Cultural Meanings of Natural Knowledge 29 - Religion 30 - Literature 31 - Art 32 - Gender 33 - European Expansion and Self-Definition
Summary: This book provides a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500–1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how new ideas, discoveries, and institutions shaped the ways in which nature came to be studied, understood, and used. Part I frames the study of 'The New Nature' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Part II surveys the 'Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge'. Part III treats the study of nature by discipline, following the classification of the sciences current in early modern Europe. Part IV takes up the implications of the new natural knowledge for religion, literature, art, gender, and European identity.
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1 - Introduction: The Age of the New
Part I - The New Nature
2 - Physics and Foundations
3 - Scientific Explanation from Formal Causes to Laws of Nature
4 - The Meanings of Experience
5 - Proof and Persuasion
Part II - Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge
6 - The Man of Science
7 - Women of Natural Knowledge
8 - Markets, Piazzas, and Villages
9 - Homes and Households
10 - Libraries and Lecture Halls
11 - Courts and Academies
12 - Anatomy Theaters, Botanical Gardens, and Natural History Collections
13 - Laboratories
14 - Sites of Military Science and Technology
15 - Coffeehouses and Print Shops
16 - Networks of Travel, Correspondence, and Exchange
Part III - Dividing the Study of Nature
17 - Natural Philosophy
18 - Medicine
19 - Natural History
20 - Cosmography
21 - From Alchemy to “Chymistry”
22 - Magic
23 - Astrology
24 - Astronomy
25 - Acoustics and Optics
26 - Mechanics
27 - The Mechanical Arts
28 - Pure Mathematics
Part IV - Cultural Meanings of Natural Knowledge
29 - Religion
30 - Literature
31 - Art
32 - Gender
33 - European Expansion and Self-Definition

This book provides a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500–1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how new ideas, discoveries, and institutions shaped the ways in which nature came to be studied, understood, and used. Part I frames the study of 'The New Nature' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Part II surveys the 'Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge'. Part III treats the study of nature by discipline, following the classification of the sciences current in early modern Europe. Part IV takes up the implications of the new natural knowledge for religion, literature, art, gender, and European identity.

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