The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe : readings from Isis / edited by Peter Dear.
The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe : readings from Isis / edited by Peter Dear.
The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe : readings from Isis / edited by Peter Dear.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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Date
1997.
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T0385876
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English
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Physical content
337 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Contents
Introduction / Peter Dear -- The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory / Robert S. Westman -- Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe / Owen Hannaway -- "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors": Geography as Self-Defin...
Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society / Peter Dear -- The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England / Steven Shapin -- Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science / Londa Schiebinger -- Appendix. Articles on Early Modern European...
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Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
This collection of readings on what is often called the "Scientific Revolution" brings together fourteen articles from the leading journal in the history of science, and combines traditional scholarship with revisionist approaches to the major themes of the period. This carefully-structured collection will help readers (students and specialists ali...
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The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe : readings from Isis / edited by Peter Dear.
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Isis.
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Includes bibliographical references.
Transferred from N500.2094/1.
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T0385876
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74VMbbqQRglM
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ISBN
0226139476 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226139463 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226139468 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226139470 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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500.209409031
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991000894409702626
