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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מחבר ראשי: Cohen, H. Floris (Author)
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
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תוכן הענינים:
  • 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.