Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 - Couverture souple

Dear, Peter Robert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0691088608 ISBN 13 : 9780691088600

Editeur : Princeton Univ Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Dear Peter

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Dear is Professor of History and of Science and Technology at Cornell University. He is the author of Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools and Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, which received the Ludwik Fleck Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science. He is the editor of The Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe and The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies.

Présentation de l'éditeur

From Copernicus, who put the earth in orbit around the sun, to Isaac Newton, who gave the world universal gravitation, the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries transformed the way that Europeans understood their world. In this book, Peter Dear offers an accessible introd

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton Univ Pr
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691088608
• ISBN 13: 9780691088600
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
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• Personne responsable: non disponible