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1 online resource (xi, 182 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Navigating / Petrus Peregrinus -- 2. Modelling a disputation (Quaestio from Aquinas) / Thomas Aquinas -- 3. Making sense of the cosmos / Sacrobosco -- 4. Reordering the Cosmos / Nicolaus Copernicus -- 5. Seeing new things: The New World / Jose de Acosta -- 6. Practical knowledge, experimental manipulation, and natural philosophy / William Gilbert -- 7. Seeing new things: The heavens / Galileo Galilei -- 8. Novelty from experience / Francis Bacon -- 9. Making experimental knowledge / Galileo Galilei -- 10. Casting a horoscope / Christian Astrology -- 11. Seeing new things / Robert Hooke -- 12. Systematic data-gathering / Robert Boyle -- 13. Experimental philosophy / Isaac Newton -- 14. Social data / William Petty -- 15. Trade and the physical globe / Edmond Halley -- 16. Finding new phenomena: Electrical effects / Charles Dufay -- 17. Electricity: Balancing the books / Benjamin Franklin -- 18. How to make sense of diversity in nature / Georges-Louis Leclerc -- 19. Building a Newtonian universe / John Michell -- 20. Charles's balloon ascent / Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond -- 21. Lavoisier's work on water / Antoine Lavoisier -- 22. Making chemistry rational / Antoine Lavoisier -- 23. new phenomenon: Current electricity / Alessandro Volta -- 24. Human sciences: Philology and anthropology / William Jones -- 25. Science and industry / William Murdoch -- 26. Malthus and political economy / Thomas Maithus |
| Summary |
This is a collection of extracts selected from widely known texts by such figures as Copernicus, Newton, and Lavoisier, as well as others, all chosen to provide a perspective on broad topics of social, cultural and intellectual history and to illuminate the contemporary concerns of the early modern period. The selection of extracts highlights the emerging technical preoccupations of this period, whilst the accompanying introductions and annotations make these sometimes complex texts highly accessible. The book follows a broad chronological sequence and provides new ways of viewing the scientific ideas and practices that underpinned European expansion during this crucial time in history. The primary source materials in this collection stand alone as texts in themselves, but in illustrating the scientific components of early modern societies they also make this book ideal for teachers and students of European history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Science -- Europe -- Early works to 1800
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Science -- Early works to 1800.
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Science -- Europe -- History
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SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Science
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Wissenschaft
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Forschung
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Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351627740 |
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1351627740 |
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9781315114453 |
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1315114453 |
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9781351627757 |
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1351627759 |
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