Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution - Couverture souple

Jardine, Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 034911305X ISBN 13 : 9780349113050

Editeur : Abacus, 2000

Synopsis

Today the 'two cultures' - art and science - have come to be treated as fundamentally opposed, their aims incompatible. Scientific research is castigated for its inhumane methods & lack of moral responsibility, while art is treated as an enduring source of essential guidance to society's spiritual well-being. Lisa Jardine makes clear in this remarkable book that this is a distinction which is both artificial & historically inaccurate. The intellectual revolution of the 17th & early 18th eighteenth centuries was the single most formative event in Western history, bringing together the humanities & natural sciences in an unprecedented ferment of conceptual & practical creativity. She documents the forces for change which brought the human & natural sciences together & gave them shape. Each of her series of key components - among them, precise time measurement, enhanced astronomical observation, selective animal & plant breeding & technological advances in navigation - lays a crucial part of the foundations for modern thought. INGENIOUS PURSUITS brilliantly illuminates the practice of science, its impact on the emerging modern world & its continuing relevance to society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lisa Jardine is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She is a regular contributor to radio (START THE WEEK) and TV programmes (QUESTION TIME), and she also writes and reviews for THE TIMES, OBSERVER and DAILY TELEGRAPH.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 034911305X
• ISBN 13: 9780349113050
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible