Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution - Couverture souple

Jardine, Professor Of Renaissance Studies Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385720017 ISBN 13 : 9780385720014

Editeur : Knopf Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds.

The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering. Ingenious Pursuits brilliantly chronicles the true intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves, and of the world around us.

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, and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385720017
• ISBN 13: 9780385720014
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 466
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible