Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe - Couverture souple

Field, J. V.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521627540 ISBN 13 : 9780521627542

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A collection of fifteen essays on some of the problems associated with the Scientific Revolution.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays which opens up alternative perspectives on some of the problems seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen in various walks of life from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the so-called 'mechanical philosophy' in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by proponents of Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Leonardo Fioravanti, Jan Swammerdam, Piero Della Francesca, Johannes Hevelius, Jonas Moore, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, Francesco Algarotti, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli. There is an introduction by the editors and an afterword by A. Rupert Hall.

Revue de presse

"An excellent collection of essays on the history of science, 1400-1750...It especially shows how the history of science is closely related to the history of culture. Indispensable for covering previously marginalized but important material." Journal of Religious Studies

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521627540
• ISBN 13: 9780521627542
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible