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BL
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630841
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| Title & Author
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Reappraisals of the scientific revolution /\ edited by David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1990.
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xxvii, 551 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0521342627
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: 9780521342629
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: 0521348048 (pbk.)
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: 9780521348041 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield : a preliminary sketch / David C. Lindberg -- Conceptions of science in the Scientific Revolution / Ernan McMullin -- Metaphysics and the new science / Gary Hatfield -- Proof, poetics, and patronage : Copernicus's preface to De revolutionibus / Robert S. Westman -- A reappraisal of the role of the universities in the Scientific Revolution / John Gascoigne -- Natural magic, hermetism, and occultism in early modern science / Brian P. Copenhaver -- Natural history and the emblematic world view / William B. Ashworth, Jr. -- From the secrets of nature to public knowledge / William Eamon -- Chemistry in the Scientific Revolution : problems of language and communication / Jan V. Golinski.
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The new philosophy and medicine in seventeenth-century England / Harold J. Cook -- Science and heterodoxy : an early modern problem reconsidered / Michael Hunter -- Infinitesimals and transcendent relations : the mathematics of motion in the late seventeenth century / Michael S. Mahoney -- The case of mechanics : one revolution or many? / Alan Gabbey.
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| Abstract
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A compendium offering broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution from a spectrum of scholars engaged in the study of 16th and 17th century science. Many accepted views and interpretations of the scientific revolution are challenged.
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Science-- History-- 16th century.
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Science-- History-- 17th century.
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| LC Classification
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Q125.R34 1990
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Lindberg, David C.
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Westman, Robert S.
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