Rethinking the scientific revolution / edited by Margaret J. Osler.
| Call Number | 509/.03 |
| Title | Rethinking the scientific revolution / edited by Margaret J. Osler. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xii, 340 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S. Westfall -- The role of religion in the Lutheran response to Copernicus / Peter Barker -- Catholic natural philosophy : alchemy and the revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby / Bruce Janacek -- Vital spirits : redemption, artisanship, and the new philosophy in early modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith -- "The terriblest eclipse that hath been seen in our days" : Black Monday and the debate on astrology during the Interregnum / William E. Burns -- Arguing about nothing : Henry More and Robert Boyle on the theological implications of the void / Jane E. Jenkins -- Pursuing knowledge : Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton / Jan W. Wojcik -- The alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton : alternate approaches and divergent deployments / Lawrence M. Principe -- The Janus faces of science in the seventeenth century : Athanasius Kircher and Isaac Newton / Paula Findlen -- The nature of Newton's "Holy Alliance" between science and religion : from the scientific revolution to Newton (and back again) / James E. Force -- The fate of the date : the theology of Newton's Principia revisited / J.E. McGuire -- Newton and Spinoza and the Bible scholarship of the day / Richard H. Popkin -- The truth of Newton's science and the truth of science's history : heroic science at its eighteenth-century formulation / Margaret C. Jacob. |
| Summary | This book challenges the traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution, probably the single most important unifying concept in the history of science. Usually referring to the period from Copernicus to Newton (roughly 1500 to 1700), the Scientific Revolution is considered to be the central episode in the history of science, the historical moment at which that unique way of looking at the world that we call 'modern science' and its attendant institutions emerged. It has been taken as the terminus a quo of all that followed. Starting with a dialogue between Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Richard S. Westfall, whose understanding of the Scientific Revolution differed in important ways, the papers in this volume reconsider canonical figures, their areas of study, and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during this seminal period of European intellectual history. |
| Added Author | Osler, Margaret J., 1942-2010, editor. |
| Subject | SCIENCE, RENAISSANCE. Science France History 17th century. Science England History 17th century. |
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| Summary | This book challenges the traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution, probably the single most important unifying concept in the history of science. Usually referring to the period from Copernicus to Newton (roughly 1500 to 1700), the Scientific Revolution is considered to be the central episode in the history of science, the historical moment at which that unique way of looking at the world that we call 'modern science' and its attendant institutions emerged. It has been taken as the terminus a quo of all that followed. Starting with a dialogue between Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Richard S. Westfall, whose understanding of the Scientific Revolution differed in important ways, the papers in this volume reconsider canonical figures, their areas of study, and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during this seminal period of European intellectual history. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S. Westfall -- The role of religion in the Lutheran response to Copernicus / Peter Barker -- Catholic natural philosophy : alchemy and the revivification of Sir Kenelm Digby / Bruce Janacek -- Vital spirits : redemption, artisanship, and the new philosophy in early modern Europe / Pamela H. Smith -- "The terriblest eclipse that hath been seen in our days" : Black Monday and the debate on astrology during the Interregnum / William E. Burns -- Arguing about nothing : Henry More and Robert Boyle on the theological implications of the void / Jane E. Jenkins -- Pursuing knowledge : Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton / Jan W. Wojcik -- The alchemies of Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton : alternate approaches and divergent deployments / Lawrence M. Principe -- The Janus faces of science in the seventeenth century : Athanasius Kircher and Isaac Newton / Paula Findlen -- The nature of Newton's "Holy Alliance" between science and religion : from the scientific revolution to Newton (and back again) / James E. Force -- The fate of the date : the theology of Newton's Principia revisited / J.E. McGuire -- Newton and Spinoza and the Bible scholarship of the day / Richard H. Popkin -- The truth of Newton's science and the truth of science's history : heroic science at its eighteenth-century formulation / Margaret C. Jacob. |
| Subject | SCIENCE, RENAISSANCE. Science France History 17th century. Science England History 17th century. |
| Multimedia |