Book ID: CBB000033322

Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (1990)

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Lindberg, David C. (Editor)
Westman, Robert S. (Editor)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1990
Physical Details: xxvii + 551 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Lindberg, David C.: Conceptions of the Scientific Revolution from Bacon to Butterfield: A preliminary sketch. McMullin, Ernan: Conceptions of science in the Scientific Revolution. Hatfield, Gary: Metaphysics and the new science. Westman, Robert S.: Proof, poetics, and patronage: Copernicus's preface to De revolutionibus. Gascoigne, John: A reappraisal of the role of the universities in the Scientific Revolution. Copenhaver, Brian P.: Natural magic, hermetism, and occultism in early modern science. Ashworth, William B., Jr.: Natural history and the emblematic world view. Eamon, William: From the secrets of nature to public knowledge. Golinski, Jan V.: Chemistry in the Scientific Revolution: Problems of language and communication. Cook, Harold J.: The new philosophy and medicine in 17th-century England. Hunter, Michael: Science and heterodoxy: An early modern problem reconsidered. Mahoney, Michael S.: Infinitesimals and transcendent relations: The mathematics of motion in the late 17th century. Gabbey, Alan: The case of mechanics: One revolution or many?


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Includes Chapters

Chapter Westman, Robert S. (1990) Proof, poetics, and patronage: Copernicus's preface to De revolutionibus. In: Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (p. 167). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Findlen, Paula
Wood, Paul B.
Vinaty, Tommaso
Sakellariadis, Spyros
Rupp, Jan C. C.
Rossi, Paolo Aldo
Journals
Studia Leibnitiana
Science in Context
Saber y Tiempo: Revista de Historia de la Ciencia
Revue Philosophique de la France et de l' Étranger
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Nature and System
Publishers
Vrin
University of California Press
Rutgers University Press
Laterza
Francis Cairns
Cornell University Press
Concepts
Science
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Museums
Matter theory
Public opinion
Communication
People
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Galilei, Galileo
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Newton, Isaac
Hartlib, Samuel
Descartes, René
Time Periods
17th century
Places
British Isles
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Cambridge University
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