How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough /
"Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket--so...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Nature-Knowledge in Traditional Society
- Greek foundations, Chinese contrasts
- Greek nature-knowledge transplanted: the islamic world
- Greek nature-knowledge transplanted in part: medieval Europe
- Greek nature-knowledge transplanted, and more: renaissance Europe
- Part II: Three revolutionary transformations
- The first transformation: realist-mathematical science
- The second transformation: a kinetic-corpuscularian philosophy of nature
- The third transformation: to find facts through experiment
- Concurrence explained
- Prospects around 1640
- Part III: Dynamics of the Revolution
- Achievements and limitations of realist-mathematical science
- Achievements and limitations of kinetic corpuscularianism
- Legitimacy in the balance
- Achievements and limitations of fact-finding experimentalism
- Nature-knowledge decompartmentalized
- The fourth transformation: corpuscular motion geometrized
- The fifth transformation: the baconian brew
- Legitimacy of a new kind
- Nature-knowledge by 1684: the achievement so far
- The sixth transformation: the newtonian synthesis.