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The scientific revolution : the essential readings /
This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2003.
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| Series: | Blackwell essential readings in history.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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.