Book ID: CBB001250420

Baroque Science (2012)

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Gal, Ofer (Author)
Chen-Morris, Raz (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 320 pp.
Language: English

In Baroque Science, Ofer Gal and Raz D. Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the study of early modern science. Instead of the triumph of reason and rationality and the celebration of the discoveries and breakthroughs of the period, they examine science in the context of the baroque, analyzing the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success. Gal and Chen-Morris show how scientists during the seventeenth century turned away from the trust in the acquisition of knowledge through the senses towards a growing reliance on the mediation of artificial instruments, such as lenses and mirrors for observation and mechanical and pneumatic devices for experimentation. Likewise, the mathematical techniques and procedures that allowed the success of mathematical natural philosophy turned increasingly obscure and artificial, and in place of divine harmonies they revealed an assemblage of isolated, contingent laws and constants. In its attempts to enforce order in the face of threatening chaos, blur the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, and mobilize passions in the service of objective knowledge, Gal and Chen-Morris reveal, the New Science is a baroque phenomenon.

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Authors & Contributors
Leitão, Henrique
Borg, George
Clark, William
Schuster, John
Wels, Volkhard
Thick, Malcolm
Concepts
Methodology of science; scientific method
Science and culture
Mathematics and its relationship to science
Development of science; change in science
Mathematics
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Time Periods
17th century
Early modern
Medieval
Renaissance
Modern
Enlightenment
Places
Germany
Great Britain
Atlantic world
Dresden (Germany)
Atlantic Ocean
England
Institutions
Staatlicher Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon (Dresden, Germany)
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