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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century

Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Peter R. Anstey & John A. Schuster

The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century

Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science: The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century

 

The seventeenth century marked a critical phase in the emergence of modern science. But we misunderstand this process, if we assume that seventeenth-century modes of natural inquiry were identical to the highly specialised, professionalised and ever proliferating family of modern sciences practised today.


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Beschrijving Studies in History and Philosophy of Science: The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century

It was the desire to probe the underlying causes of the shift from the early modern 'nature-knowledge' to modern science that was one of the stimuli for the 'Origins of Modernity: Early Modern Thought 1543-1789' conference held in Sydney in July 2002.


ISBN
9781402036033
Pagina's
250
Verschenen
Serie
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
NUR
910
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Hardback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

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