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The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry

Categorie	Algemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer	#417958-XL39
Titel	The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry
Auteur	Cohen, H. Floris
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	The University of Chicago Press
Jaar van uitgave	1994
ISBN10	0226112802
ISBN13	9780226112800
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Examines the body of work on the intellectual, social and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen surveys a wide range of scholarship since the 19th century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. In this historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, the author examines the body of work on the intellectual, social and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the 19th century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler and Newton, to the question of why the Scie... (Lees verder)ntific Revolution took place in 17th-century Western Europe, rather than in ancient Greece, China or the Islamic world. Cohen contends that the emergence of early modern science was essential to the rise of the modern world, in the way it fostered advances in technology.
Pagina's	662
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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