Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Secondary Sources Reader

ISBN-13: 9780333970065 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 320 str.

Malcolm Oster

Opis

Organized to accompany Science in Europe, 1500-1800: a Primary Sources Reader, this innovative book collects key critical, analytical, and historical writings on the Scientific Revolution. Included is a broad, balanced range of voices, on such topics as the origins of modern science, the role of experiments in scientific progress, nationalism and science, patronage and censorship. The essays include key writings by such scholars as Steve Shapin, Simon Schaffer, Mario Biagioli, and Roy Porter.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

MALCOLM OSTER is a Staff Tutor and Lecturer in History of Science at the Open University.

Blurb

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.