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基本説明
Key themes include science and religion, scholars and craftsmen, scientific patronage, the occult sciences and matter in motion. An excellent introduction to the scholarship surrounding this significant event.
Full Description
The Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries began the process that led to modern science, both building on and challenging the classical world's natural philosophies. This wide-ranging and accessible collection of seminal work by historians of the Scientific Revolution emphasises the interplay of the social, cultural and intellectual traditions of early modern Europe. Key themes include science and religion, scholars and craftsmen, scientific patronage, the occult sciences, and matter in motion.
A valuable resource for students and teachers of the history of science, this book can be used either alongside or independently of its companion volume.
Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Primary Sources Reader (also edited by Malcolm Oster.
Contents
Introduction
Europe's Awakening
Copernicus and his Revolution
The Spread of Copernicanism in Northern Europe
Crisis in Italy
Iberian Science
Science from the Earth in Central Europe
French Science in the Seventeenth Century
Science in Seventeenth-Century England
Scientific Academies across Europe
The Reception of Newtonianism across Europe
Science in the Scottish Enlightenment
Science on the Fringe of Europe: Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Science in orthodox Europe
Establishing Science in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The Chemical Revolution
Conclusions.
