[PDF] The Cambridge History Of Philosophy Of The Scientific Revolution eBook

Author : Dana Jalobeanu
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Page : pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2022
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9781108413671

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"Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all those of Aristotle. Then the humanist re-discovery and translation of various ancient philosophical works led the number of "authorities" to grow, and alongside a monolithic "Aristotelianism" emerged any number of "-isms": Stoicism, Epicureanism, Platonism, Skepticism, and so on. Gradually, philosophers realized that they need not need rely on authorities at all, and began to use their own reason, coupled with experience and experiment. Scholasticism and humanism were dead, and the "Age of Reason" had begun, with Descartes as its iconoclastic father (perhaps with a little help from Bacon)"--

Author : David Marshall Miller
Publisher :
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108420303

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A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

Author : Dana Jalobeanu
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2021-12
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9781108333108

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"Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all those of Aristotle. Then the humanist re-discovery and translation of various ancient philosophical works led the number of "authorities" to grow, and alongside a monolithic "Aristotelianism" emerged any number of "-isms": Stoicism, Epicureanism, Platonism, Skepticism, and so on. Gradually, philosophers realized that they need not need rely on authorities at all, and began to use their own reason, coupled with experience and experiment. Scholasticism and humanism were dead, and the "Age of Reason" had begun, with Descartes as its iconoclastic father (perhaps with a little help from Bacon)"--

Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521572010

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A comprehensive and authoritative guide to developments in life and earth sciences since 1800.

Author : Margaret J. Osler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2000-03-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521667906

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This book challenges the traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution, probably the single most important unifying concept in the history of science. Usually referring to the period from Copernicus to Newton (roughly 1500 to 1700), the Scientific Revolution is considered to be the central episode in the history of science, the historical moment at which that unique way of looking at the world that we call 'modern science' and its attendant institutions emerged. It has been taken as the terminus a quo of all that followed. Starting with a dialogue between Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Richard S. Westfall, whose understanding of the Scientific Revolution differed in important ways, the papers in this volume reconsider canonical figures, their areas of study, and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during this seminal period of European intellectual history.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1992-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521396998

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The 'scientific revolution' of the sixteenth and seventeenth century continues to command attention in historical debate. Controversy still rages about the extent to which it was essentially a 'revolution of the mind', or how far it must also be explained by wider considerations. In this volume, leading scholars of early modern science argue the importance of specifically national contexts for understanding the transformation in natural philosophy between Copernicus and Newton. Distinct political, religious, cultural and linguistic formations shaped scientific interests and concerns differently in each European state and explain different levels of scientific intensity. Questions of institutional development and of the transmission of scientific ideas are also addressed. The emphasis upon national determinants makes this volume an interesting contribution to the study of the Scientific Revolution.

Author : Mikuláš Teich
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1783741228

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The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing social environment. The Scientific Revolution was marked by the global expansion of trade by European powers and by interstate rivalries for a stake in the developing world market, in which advanced medieval China, remarkably, did not participate. It is in the wake of these happenings, in Teich's original retelling, that the Thirty Years War and the Scientific Revolution emerge as products of and factors in an uneven transition in European and world history: from natural philosophy to modern science, feudalism to capitalism, the late medieval to the early modern period. ??With a narrative that moves from pre-classical thought to the European institutionalisation of science – and a scope that embraces figures both lionised and neglected, such as Nicole Oresme, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Thaddeus Hagecius, Johann Joachim Becher – The Scientific Revolution Revisited illuminates the social and intellectual sea changes that shaped the modern world.

Author : David Marshall Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108349862

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The early modern era produced the Scientific Revolution, which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established the conceptual foundations of modernity. This rich and comprehensive volume surveys and illuminates the numerous and complicated interconnections between philosophical and scientific thought as both were radically transformed from the late sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. The chapters explore reciprocal influences between philosophy and physics, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines, and show how thinkers responded to an immense range of intellectual, material, and institutional influences. The volume offers a unique perspicuity, viewing the entire landscape of early modern philosophy and science, and also marks an epoch in contemporary scholarship, surveying recent contributions and suggesting future investigations for the next generation of scholars and students.

Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2007-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521869315

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This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

Author : Wilbur Applebaum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1628 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1135582556

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With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged. Covering the historiography of the period, discussions of the Scientific Revolution's impact on its contemporaneous disciplines, and in-depth analyses of the importance of historical context to major developments in the sciences, The Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution is an indispensible resource for students and researchers in the history and philosophy of science.