Ingenious pursuits : building the scientific revolution / Lisa Jardine.
Ingenious pursuits : building the scientific revolution / Lisa Jardine.
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London : Little, Brown, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N940.21/34
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English
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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.
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London : Little, Brown, 1999.
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England
Date Published
1999.
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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N940.21/34
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74VvELw8OMp3
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ISBN
0316647527 :
9780316647526 :
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940.21
509.40903
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991011654529702626