Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe Readings from Isis

Name: Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe Readings from Isis
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ISBN: 9780226139470

ISBN-10: 0226139476

ISBN-13: 9780226139470

Edition: 1996

Authors: Peter Dear

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This collection brings together thirteen articles on early modern Western science, each representing an important contribution to the ways in which the scientific revolution is regarded today. The anthology features classic and prize-winning articles by renowned scholars, including "Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society," by Peter Dear; "The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory," by Robert S. Westman; "Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science," by Owen Hannaway; "Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England," by Lesley B. Cormack; "What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution?" by…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 0.68" wide x 1.00" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction Peter Dear


The Melanchthon Circle Rheticus, and the



Interpretation of the Copernican Theory



Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus



"Good Fences Make Good Neighbors": Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England



What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution?



Science and Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope



The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century



Descartes on Refraction: Scientific versus Rhetorical Method Bruce Stansfield Eastwood


Early Seventeenth-Century Atomism: Theory, Epistemology, and the Insufficiency of Experiment



Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century



Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society Peter Dear The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England



Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science



Appendix: Articles on Early Modern European Science in Isis, 1970-1996


Contributors and Editors