Revolutionizing The Sciences by Ian Dear
European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500–1700
A concise thematic history of early modern European natural knowledge, it traces how experimentation, mathematization, instruments, print culture, and new institutions from 1500 to 1700 reshaped intellectual authority and practices. It embeds well-known discoveries within networks of patronage, commerce, religion, and academies, showing how credibility was forged through rhetoric, replication, and communal standards. Questioning the very notion of a singular “revolution,” it highlights continuities with traditions like natural magic and alchemy even as mechanistic philosophy and social norms laid foundations for modern science.
- Published
- 2001
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 200-300
- Original Language
- English
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