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Revolutionizing the sciences European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700
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Revolutionizing the sciences [electronic resource] : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.
Edition
2nd ed.
Published
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 203 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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Language
English
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August 28, 2020
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Natural philosophy and instrumentality
"What was worth knowing" in 1500
Humanism and ancient wisdom: how to learn things in the sixteenth century
The alchemist, the craftsman, and the scholar
Mathematics challenges philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the mathematical practitioners
Mechanism and corpuscles : Descartes builds a universe
Extra-curricular activities: new homes for natural knowledge
Experiment: how to learn things about nature in the seventeenth century
Cartesians and Newtonians
Conclusion: what was worth knowing by the eighteenth century?
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