Title: The scientific revolution /
Authors: Shapin, Steven.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Science History; Science history
Abstract: Rejecting the notion that there is anything like an "essence" of early modern science, Shapin emphasizes the social practices by which scientific knowledge was produced and the social purposes for which it was intended. He shows how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. And he treats science not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and.
Contents: What Was Known? -- How Was It Known? -- What Was the Knowledge For?