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How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough /
Once, the concept of 'the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was innovative and inspiring, yielding what is still the master narrative of the rise of modern science. That narrative, however, has turned into a straitjacket-so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. Even so, i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Prologue. Solving the problem of the scientific revolution
- Part I. Nature-Knowledge in Traditional Society
- I. Greek foundations, Chinese contrasts
- II. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted: the Islamic world
- III. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted in part: medieval Europe
- IV. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted, and more: renaissance Europe
- Part II. Three revolutionary transformations
- V. The first transformation: realist-mathematical science
- VI. The second transformation: a kinetic-corpuscularian philosophy of nature
- VII. The third transformation: to find facts through experiment
- VIII. Concurrence explained
- IX. Prospects around 1640
- Part III. Dynamics of the Revolution
- X. Achievements and limitations of realist-mathematical science
- XI. Achievements and limitations of kinetic corpuscularianism
- XII. Legitimacy in the balance
- XIII. Achievements and limitations of fact-finding experimentalism
- XIV. Nature-knowledge decompartmentalized
- XV. The fourth transformation: corpuscular motion geometrized
- XVI. The fifth transformation: the baconian brew
- XVII. Legitimacy of a new kind
- XVIII. Nature-knowledge by 1684: the achievement so far
- XIX. The sixth transformation: the newtonian synthesis
- Epilogue: A dual legacy
- Endnotes
- Name Index
- Subject Index