| Description |
xv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Greek science in the sixteenth-century Renaissance / Vivian Nutton -- 'With the rules of life and an enema' : Leonardo Fioravanti's medical primitivism / William Eamon -- Cutting edge of a revolution? : medicine and natural history near the shores of the North Sea / Harold J. Cook -- Science and technology during the Scientific Revolution : an empirical approach / Richard S. Westfall -- Mathematics and the craft of painting : Piero della Francesa and perspective / J. V. Field -- Johannes Hevelius and the visual language of astronomy / Mary G. Winkler and Albert Van Helden -- Mathematical sciences and military technology : the Ordnance Office in the reign of Charles II / Frances Willmoth -- Between ars and philosophia naturalis: reflections on the historiography of early modern mechanics / Alan Gabbey -- Conscience of Robert Boyle : functionalism, 'dysfunctionalism' and the task of historical understanding / Michael Hunter -- Clandestine Stoic concepts in mechanical philosophy : the problem of electrical attraction / Gad Freudenthal -- Alchemy in the Newtonian circle : personal acquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newton's alchemy / Karen Figala and Ulrich Petzold -- Newton's subtle matter : the Opticks queries and the mechanical philosophy / R.W. Home -- Huygens's reaction to Newton's gravitational theory / Roberto De A. Martins -- Reception of Newton's Opticks in Italy / Paolo Casini -- Marsigli, Benedict XIV and the Bolognese Institute of Sciences / Giorgio Dragoni |
| Analysis |
Europe |
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Science History |
| Notes |
Spine title: Renaissance & revolution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-272) and index |
| Subject |
Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Science -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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Science, Renaissance.
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Technology -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
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| Author |
Field, Judith Veronica.
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James, Frank A. J. L., 1955-
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| LC no. |
93006624 |
| ISBN |
0521434270 (hardback) |
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