The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe : readings from Isis / edited by Peter Dear.
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
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1997.
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| Physical Description: | 337 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- The Melanchthon circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg interpretation of the Copernican theory / Robert S. Westman
- Laboratory design and the aim of science : Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe / Owen Hannaway
- "Good fences make good neighbors" : geography as self-definition in early modern England / Lesley B. Cormack
- What happened to occult qualities in the scientific revolution? / Keith Hutchison
- Galileo, motion, and essences / Margaret J. Osler
- Science and patronage : Galileo and the telescope / Richard S. Westfall
- The telescope in the seventeenth century / Albert Van Helden
- Descartes on refraction : scientific versus rhetorical method / Bruce Stansfield Eastwood
- Early seventeenth-century atomism : theory, epistemology, and the insufficiency of experiment / Christoph Meinel
- Robert Boyle and structural chemistry in the seventeenth century / Thomas S. Kuhn
- Newton's alchemy and his theory of matter / B.J.T. Dobbs
- Totius in verba : rhetoric and authority in the early royal society / Peter Dear
- The house of experiment in seventeenth-century England / Steven Shapin
- Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy : a turning point for women in science / Londa Schiebinger.