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Ingenious pursuits : building the scientific revolution / Lisa Jardine.

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Ingenious pursuits : building the scientific revolution / Lisa Jardine.

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Ingenious pursuits : building the scientific revolution / Lisa Jardine.

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Ingenious pursuits : building the scientific revolution / Lisa Jardine.

Author / Creator

Publisher

London : Little, Brown, 1999.

Date

1999.

Call Numbers

N940.21/34

Record Identifier

74VvELw8OMp3

MMS ID

991011654529702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

xx, 444 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Signs of the times -- 2. Scale models -- 3. Subtle anatomy -- 4. Running like clockwork -- 5. Breaking new ground -- 6. Strange specimens -- 7. Examining the evidence -- 8. Committed to paper -- Epilogue.

Publication information

Publisher

London : Little, Brown, 1999.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

1999.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Today the two cultures of "art" and "science" have come to be treated as fundamentally opposed, their aims incompatible. In this remarkable book, Lisa Jardine makes clear that this distinction is both artificial and historically inaccurate. The intellectual revolution of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was the single most formative e...

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Ingenious pursuits : building the scientific revolution / Lisa Jardine.

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Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Call Numbers

N940.21/34

Record Identifier

74VvELw8OMp3

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ISBN

0316647527 :

9780316647526 :

DDC

940.21

509.40903

MMS ID

991011654529702626

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