Gal, Ofer (Editor)
Chen-Morris, Raz (Editor)
Springer
Physical Details: vi + 313 pp.
Language: English
This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations they share, such as the foundations of order, the power and peril of mediation and the conflation of the natural and the artificial. The essays also take on the historiographical issues involved: the characterization of culture in general and culture of knowledge in particular; the use of generalizations like 'Baroque' and the status of such categories; and the role of these in untangling the historical complexities of the tumultuous 17th century. The canonical protagonists of the 'Scientific Revolution' are considered, and so are some obscure and suppressed figures: Galileo side by side with Scheiner;Torricelli together with Kircher; Newton as well as Scilla. The coupling of Baroque and Science defies both the still-triumphalist historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and the slight embarrassment that the Baroque represents for most cultural-national histories of Western Europe. It signals a methodological interest in tensions and dilemmas rather than self-affirming narratives of success and failure, and provides an opportunity for reflective critique of our historical categories which is valuable in its own right.
...MoreDescription Contents:
Chapter Gal, Ofer (2013) From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Findlen, Paula (2013) Agostino Scilla: A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Shank, J. B. (2013) What Exactly Was “Torricelli's Barometer”?. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Gascoigne, John (2013) Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Boantza, Victor (2013) Chymical Philosophy and Boyle's Incongruous Philosophical Chymistry. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Feldhay, Rivka (2013) The Simulation of Nature and the Dissimulation of the Law on a Baroque Stage: Galileo and the Church Revisited. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, Raz (2013) Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Schuster, John (2013) What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy?. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Vermeir, Koen (2013) “Bent and Directed Towards Him”: A Baroque Perspective on Kircher's Sunflower Clock. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Chen-Morris, Raz (2013) “The Quality of Nothing,” Or Kepler's Visual Economy of Science. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Salter, Alan (2013) William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
Chapter Dew, Nicholas (2013) The Hive and the Pendulum: Universal Metrology and Baroque Science. In: Science in the Age of Baroque.
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