Revolutionizing the sciences
Subtitle: European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700
By: Peter Dear.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Basingstoke
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Science -- History.; Europe -- Intellectual life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Philosphy and operationalism; title: "What was worth knowing" in 1500; title: Humanism and ancient wisdom: how to learn things in the sixteenth century; title: The scholar and the craftsman: Paracelsus, Gilbert, Bacon; title: Mathematics challenges philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the surveyors; title: Mechanism: Descartes builds a universe; title: Extra-curricular activities: new homes for natural knowledge; title: Experiment: how to learn things about nature in the seventeenth century; title: Cartesians and Newtonians; title: Conclusion: What was worth knowing by the eighteenth century?