The scientific enterprise in early modern Europe
Subtitle: readings from Isis
By: edited by Peter Dear.
Contributors: Dear, Peter Robert.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Isis; Science -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; Science -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Other titles: Isis.
Description: This collection of readings on what is often called the "Scientific Revolution" brings together fourteen articles from the leading journal in the history of science, and combines traditional scholarship with revisionist approaches to the major themes of the period. This carefully-structured collection will help readers (students and specialists alike) approach complex questions - involving argument and experiment, audience and agency, authority and institutions - that surround this crucial era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.