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BL
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738661
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b558574
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Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris.
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Baroque science\ Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris.
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Paperback edition
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Chicago ; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2014. ©2013
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xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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022621298X
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: 0226923983
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: 9780226212982
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: 9780226923987
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| Contents
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Observation : Science's disappearing observer: baroque optics and the enlightenment of vision --;Per aenigmate: mirrors and lenses as cognitive tools in medieval and renaissance Europe --;The specter of the telescope: radical instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke --;Mathematization: Nature's drawing: problems and resolutions in the mathematization of motion --;From divine order to human approximation: mathematics in baroque science --;The emergence of baroque mathematical natural philosophy: an archeology of the inverse --;Square law --;Passions: Passions, imagination, and the persona of the new savant.
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Mathematics -- History -- 17th century.
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Optics -- History -- 17th century.
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Science -- History -- 17th century.
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| LC Classification
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Q127.E85O347 9999
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Ofer Gal
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Raz Chen-Morris
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