Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution - Brossura

Jardine, Lisa

Brossura

ISBN 10: 034911305X ISBN 13: 9780349113050

Casa editrice: Abacus, 2000

Riassunto

Today the 'two cultures' - art and science - have come to be treated as fundamentally opposed, their aims incompatible. Scientific research is castigated for its inhumane methods & lack of moral responsibility, while art is treated as an enduring source of essential guidance to society's spiritual well-being. Lisa Jardine makes clear in this remarkable book that this is a distinction which is both artificial & historically inaccurate. The intellectual revolution of the 17th & early 18th eighteenth centuries was the single most formative event in Western history, bringing together the humanities & natural sciences in an unprecedented ferment of conceptual & practical creativity. She documents the forces for change which brought the human & natural sciences together & gave them shape. Each of her series of key components - among them, precise time measurement, enhanced astronomical observation, selective animal & plant breeding & technological advances in navigation - lays a crucial part of the foundations for modern thought. INGENIOUS PURSUITS brilliantly illuminates the practice of science, its impact on the emerging modern world & its continuing relevance to society.

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Recensione:

Lisa Jardine has the knack of making science easy to understand. Her book brilliantly recaptures the excitement felt by seventeenth century scientists at the new world of objects they were finding and theorising. (Roy Porter)

A fascinating book, the best introduction to date for the first scientists; for this is history written not backwards, in the quest of the origins of modern science, but with a blind eye to the future... (David Wooton)

Lisa Jardine is a new star on England's literary and historical scene. (LITERARY REVIEW)

INGENIOUS PURSUITS is an eminently readable history of the intellectual revolution of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries that through it's author's spirited style well convey the excitement of those who were party to it. (TLS)

Descrizione del libro:

Building the Scientific Revolution', this book marks the emergence of a distinctive modern Western intellectual tradition in the 17th and early 18th century.

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 034911305X
• ISBN 13: 9780349113050
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464