Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge in transition, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dear, Peter, 1958-
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Science > Europe > History > 16th century.
Science > Europe > History > 17th century.
Learning and scholarship > Europe > History > 16th century.
Learning and scholarship > Europe > History > 17th century.
Science and civilization > History.
Learning and scholarship.
Science.
Science and civilization.
Europe.
Naturwissenschaften.
1500-1699
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
European knowledge in transition, 1500-1700
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Natural philosophy and instrumentality
  • "What was worth knowing" in 1500
  • Humanism and ancient wisdom: how to learn things in the sixteenth century
  • Parcelsus and Bacon: philosophy as practical knowledge
  • Mathematical practitioners and mathematical philosophers
  • Mechanism and corpuscles : Descartes builds a universe
  • Extra-curricular activities: new places 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?