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Reconfiguring the world : nature, God, and human understanding from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe
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Reconfiguring the world : nature, God, and human understanding from the Middle Ages to early modern Europe / Margaret J. Osler.
ISBN
9780801896552 (hardcover : alk. paper)
080189655X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801896569 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801896568 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
x, 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 05, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Western view of the world before 1500
Winds of change : searching for a new philosophy of nature
Observing the heavens : from Aristotelian cosmology to the uniformity of nature
Creating a new philosophy of nature
Shifting boundaries : from mixed mathematics to mathematical physics
Exploring the properties of matter : alchemy and chemistry
Studying life : plants, animals, and humans
Rethinking the universe : Newton on gravity and God.
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