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Baroque science
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Title
Baroque science / Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris.
ISBN
9780226923987 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226923983 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226923994 (e-book)
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 10, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Observation : Science's disappearing observer: baroque optics and the enlightenment of vision
Per aenigmate: mirrors and lenses as cognitive tools in medieval and renaissance Europe
The specter of the telescope: radical instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke
Mathematization: Nature's drawing: problems and resolutions in the mathematization of motion
From divine order to human approximation: mathematics in baroque science
The emergence of baroque mathematical natural philosophy: an archeology of the inverse square law
Passions: Passions, imagination, and the persona of the new savant.
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