Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the World, Margaret J. Osler treats the development of the sciences in Europe from the early sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries as a complex and multifaceted process.
The worldview embedded in modern science is a relatively recent development. Osler aims to convey a nuanced...
Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history....
