Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution - Couverture rigide

Jardine, Lisa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316647527 ISBN 13 : 9780316647526

Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 1999

Synopsis

The intellectual revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries is considered by many to be the most important event in Western history. Its breakthroughs in thought and its advances in science stand at the centre of every dimension of modern life. Yet the Renaissance intellectual revolution remains one of the great unexplained events of history. What kind of upheaval was it that produced its permanent changes in our outlook and understanding? What triggered the acceleration in the growth of knowledge, such that in one century man acquired a pre-eminent ability to control nature? This work documents the forces for change which brought the human and natural sciences together and gave them shape. Each of her series of key components - among them, precise time measurement, enhanced astronomical observation, selective animal and plant breeding, and technological advances in navigation - lays a crucial part of the foundations for modern thought.

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À propos de l'auteur

Professor Lisa Jardine is a Cambridge and University of London academic who is also a regular radio and TV broadcaster and a contributor to the SUNDAY TIMES and TELEGRAPH.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Company
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316647527
• ISBN 13: 9780316647526
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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