The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry - Brossura

Cohen, H. Floris Floris

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ISBN 10: 0226112802 ISBN 13: 9780226112800

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Riassunto

In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the nineteenth century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it.

Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, to the question of why the Scientific Revolution took place in seventeenth-century Western Europe, rather than in ancient Greece, China, or the Islamic world. Cohen contends that the emergence of early modern science was essential to the rise of the modern world, in the way it fostered advances in technology.

A valuable entrée to the literature on the Scientific Revolution, this book assesses both a controversial body of scholarship, and contributes to understanding how modern science came into the world.

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• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0226112802
• ISBN 13: 9780226112800
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 680