Title: Revolutionizing the sciences : European knowledge in transition, 1500-1700 /
Authors: Dear, Peter, 1958-
Year: 2019
Subjects: Science Europe History; Science Europe History; Learning and scholarship Europe History; Learning and scholarship Europe History; Science and civilization History.; Learning and scholarship; Science; Science and civilization; Europe
Contents: Introduction: Natural philosophy and instrumentality -- "What was worth knowing" in 1500 -- Humanism and ancient wisdom: how to learn things in the sixteenth century -- Parcelsus and Bacon: philosophy as practical knowledge -- Mathematical practitioners and mathematical philosophers -- Mechanism and corpuscles : Descartes builds a universe -- Extra-curricular activities: new places for natural knowledge -- Experiment: how to learn things about nature in the seventeenth century -- Cartesians and Newtonians -- Conclusion: what was worth knowing by the eighteenth century?