The Cambridge History Of Science Volume 3 Early Modern Science
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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science
Author: David C. Lindberg
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2003
An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science
Author: Katharine Park
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2006-07-03
This volume is a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, ca. 1500-1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how new ideas, discoveries, and institutions shaped the ways in which nature came to be studied, understood, and used.
The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution
"Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all those of Aristotle. Then the humanist re-discovery and translation of various ancient philosophical works led the number of "authorities" to grow, and alongside a monolithic "Aristotelianism" emerged any number of "-isms": Stoicism, Epicureanism, Platonism, Skepticism, and so on. Gradually, philosophers realized that they need not need rely on authorities at all, and began to use their own reason, coupled with experience and experiment. Scholasticism and humanism were dead, and the "Age of Reason" had begun, with Descartes as its iconoclastic father (perhaps with a little help from Bacon)"--