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How Modern Science Came into the World
Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough
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eBook - PDF
How Modern Science Came into the World
Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough
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Table of contents
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Prologue. Solving the problem of the scientific revolution
- Part I. Nature-Knowledge in Traditional Society
- I. Greek foundations, Chinese contrasts
- II. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted: the Islamic world
- III. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted in part: medieval Europe
- IV. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted, and more: renaissance Europe
- Part II. Three revolutionary transformations
- V. The first transformation: realist-mathematical science
- VI. The second transformation: a kinetic-corpuscularian philosophy of nature
- VII. The third transformation: to find facts through experiment
- VIII. Concurrence explained
- IX. Prospects around 1640
- Part III. Dynamics of the Revolution
- X. Achievements and limitations of realist-mathematical science
- XI. Achievements and limitations of kinetic corpuscularianism
- XII. Legitimacy in the balance
- XIII. Achievements and limitations of fact-finding experimentalism
- XIV. Nature-knowledge decompartmentalized
- XV. The fourth transformation: corpuscular motion geometrized
- XVI. The fifth transformation: the baconian brew
- XVII. Legitimacy of a new kind
- XVIII. Nature-knowledge by 1684: the achievement so far
- XIX. The sixth transformation: the newtonian synthesis
- Epilogue: A dual legacy
- Endnotes
- Name Index
- Subject Index