Book ID: CBB001200539

How Modern Science Came Into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough (2010)

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Cohen, H. Floris (Author)


Amsterdam University Press


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xxxix + 779 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Once, the concept of `the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was innovative and inspiring, yielding what is still the master narrative of the rise of modern science. That narrative, however, has turned into a straitjacket---so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. Even so, in Floris Cohen's view neither the early, theory-centered historiography nor present-day contextual and practice-oriented approaches compel us to drop the concept altogether. Instead, he offers here a narrative restructured from the ground up, by means of a comprehensive approach, sustained comparisons, and a tenacious search for underlying patterns. Key to his analysis is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct, yet tightly interconnected revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five-to-thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world.'

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Authors & Contributors
Cohen, H. Floris
Nyden, Tammy
Yeo, Richard R.
Smith, Vanessa
Romo, José
Raj, Kapil
Concepts
Revolutions in science
Historiography
Science and religion
Natural philosophy
Humanism
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17th century
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Modern
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Europe
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Italy
Greece
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Ottoman Empire
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