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The Cambridge History of Science

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The Cambridge History of Science

The Cambridge History of Science

Volume 3: Early Modern Science
Katharine Park, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Lorraine Daston, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
September 2006
3. Early Modern Science
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9780521572446
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    This book provides a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.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. Part I frames the study of 'The New Nature' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Part II surveys the 'Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge'. Part III treats the study of nature by discipline, following the classification of the sciences current in early modern Europe. Part IV takes up the implications of the new natural knowledge for religion, literature, art, gender, and European identity.

    • The most comprehensive and in-depth account of the knowledge of nature in early modern Europe available in English
    • The combination of clear prose and extensive bibliographies make the articles accessible to students, scholars, and specialists
    • Transforms the traditional understanding of the Scientific Revolution by broadening the range of people, sites and activities associated with it

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    'Undoubtedly this hefty volume is a necessary addition to the libraries of early modern scholars and to the bibliography of any course covering science in the early modern period.' British Journal for the History of Science

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    September 2006
    Hardback
    9780521572446
    894 pages
    232 × 163 × 60 mm
    1.34kg
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • List of illustrations
    • Notes on contributors
    • General editors' preface
    • Acknowledgments
    • 1. Introduction: the age of the new Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston
    • Part I. The New Nature:
    • 2. Physics and foundations Daniel Garber
    • 3. Scientific explanation Lynn S. Joy
    • 4. The meanings of experience Peter Dear
    • 5. Proof and persuasion Richard W. Serjeantson
    • Part II. Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge:
    • 6. The man of science Steven Shapin
    • 7. Women of natural knowledge Londa Schiebinger
    • 8. Markets, piazzas, and villages William Eamon
    • 9. Homes and households Alix Cooper
    • 10. Libraries and lecture halls Anthony Grafton
    • 11. Courts and academies Bruce T. Moran
    • 12. Anatomy theaters, botanical gardens, and natural history collections Paula Findlen
    • 13. Laboratories Pamela H. Smith
    • 14. Sites of military science and technology Kelly DeVries
    • 15. Coffeehouses and print shops Adrian Johns
    • 16. Networks of travel, correspondence, and exchange Steven J. Harris
    • Part III. Dividing the Study of Nature:
    • 17. Natural philosophy Ann Blair
    • 18. Medicine Harold J. Cook
    • 19. Natural history Paula Findlen
    • 20. Cosmography Klaus A. Vogel (translated by Alisha Rankin)
    • 21. From alchemy to 'chymistry' William R. Newman
    • 22. Magic Brian P. Copenhaver
    • 23. Astrology H. Darrel Rutkin
    • 24. Astronomy William Donahue
    • 25. Acoustics and optics Paolo Mancosu
    • 26. Mechanics Domenico Beroloni Meli
    • 27. The mechanical arts Jim Bennett
    • 28. Pure mathematics Kirsti Andersen and Henk J. M. Bos
    • Part IV. Cultural Meanings of Natural Knowledge:
    • 29. Religion Rivka Feldhay
    • 30. Literature Mary Baine Campbell
    • 31. Art Carmen Niekrasz and Claudia Swan
    • 32. Gender Dorinda Outram
    • 33. European expansion and self-definition Klaus A. Vogel (translated by Alisha Rankin)
    • Index.
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    • Katharine Park, Lorraine Daston, Daniel Garber, Lynn S. Joy, Peter Dear, Richard W. Serjeantson, Steven Shapin, Londa Schiebinger, William Eamon, Alix Cooper, Anthony Grafton, Bruce T. Moran, Paula Findlen, Pamela H. Smith, Kelly DeVries, Adrian Johns, Steven J. Harris, Ann Blair, Harold J. Cook, Klaus A. Vogel, Alisha Rankin, William R. Newman, Brian P. Copenhaver, H. Darrel Rutkin, William Donahue, Paolo Mancosu, Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Jim Bennett, Kirsti Andersen, Henk J. M. Bos, Rivka Feldhay, Mary Baine Campbell, Carmen Niekrasz, Claudia Swan, Dorinda Outram

      • Editors
    • Katharine Park , Harvard University, Massachusetts

      Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. She is the author of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150–1750 (with Katharine Park, 1998) and Wunder, Beweise und Tatsachen: Zur Geschichte der Rationalität (2001).

    • Lorraine Daston , Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin

      Katharine Park is Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science and of the Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University, Massachusetts. She is the author of Doctors and Medicine in Early Renaissance Florence (1985), and Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation and the Origins of Human Dissection (2007). Her work has appeared in Isis, The Renaissance Quarterly, and Renaissance Studies, and many periodicals.

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