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Rethinking the Scientific Revolution

By Margaret J. Osler

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
9780511529276, 0521667909, 0521661013, 0511529279, 9780521661010, 9780521667906
LCC
Q125.2 .R48 2000
Open Library ID
OL36085M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7296077 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
356\352
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Scientific Revolution (roughly 1500 to 1700) is considered to be the central episode in the history of science, the historical moment when "modern science" and its attendant institutions emerged. This book challenges the traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution. Starting with a dialogue between Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Richard S. Westfall, whose understanding of the Scientific Revolution differs in important ways, the papers in this volume reconsider canonical figures, their areas of study, and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during this seminal period of European intellectual history.

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