Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 - Second Edition

Dear, Peter

ISBN 10: 0691142068 / ISBN 13: 9780691142067

Edité par Princeton University Press, 2009

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• Titre: Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 - Second Edition
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date de parution: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0691142068
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691142067
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Revolutionizing the Sciences 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 Europeans understood their world. This book offers an introduction to the origins of modern science for students and general readers. Full description

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.