Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.
Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.
Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.
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Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001.
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2001.
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viii, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Introduction: Philosophy and Operationalism -- 1. "What Was Worth Knowing" in 1500 -- 2. Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things in the Sixteenth Century -- 3. The Scholar and the Craftsman: Paracelsus, Gilbert, Bacon -- 4. Mathematics Challenges Philosophy: Galileo, Kepler and the Surveyor...
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Basingstoke : Palgrave, 2001.
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2001.
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The European expansion around the globe, which began in the sixteenth century, carried with it new conceptions of knowledge itself. Francis Bacon famously asserted that 'knowledge is power'; this book attempts to go beneath the oft-quoted slogan to see the various ways in which this conviction played itself out in shaping new perceptions of what na...
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Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700 / Peter Dear.
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 181-192.
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