The scientific revolution : the essential readings /

• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hellyer, Marcus.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
• Series: Blackwell essential readings in history.
• Subjects: 1500-1699; Science > Europe > History > 16th century.; Science > Europe > History > 17th century.; SCIENCE > History.; Science.; Natuurwetenschappen.; Europe.; Electronic books.; History.
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This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Table of Contents:

• A traditional narrative of the Scientific Revolution /
• R. Hooykaas
• Competing disciplines /
• Robert S. Westman
• The experimental philosophy and its institutions /
• Steven Shapin
• The mechanical philosophy and its appeal /
• Peter Dear
• The revolution in natural history /
• William B. Ashworth
• Medicine and alchemy /
• Allen G. Debus
• The Newtonian achievement /
• I. Bernard Cohen
• The Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution /
• Margaret C. Jacob
• A dissenting view /
• Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams.