Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800
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Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800

A Book of Texts

  1. 182 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800

A Book of Texts

About this book

Scientific Practices in European History, 1200–1800 presents and situates a collection of extracts from both widely known texts by such figures as Copernicus, Newton, and Lavoisier, and lesser known but significant items, all chosen to provide a perspective on topics in social, cultural and intellectual history and to illuminate the concerns of the early modern period.

The selection of extracts highlights the emerging technical preoccupations of this period, while the accompanying introductions and annotations make these occasionally complex works accessible to students and non-specialists. The book follows a largely chronological sequence and helps to locate scientific ideas and practices within broader European 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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781138656413

Table of contents

  1. Cover-Page
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. List of tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 Navigating
  11. 2 Modelling a disputation (Quaestio from Aquinas)
  12. 3 Making sense of the cosmos
  13. 4 Reordering the Cosmos
  14. 5 Seeing new things: The New World
  15. 6 Practical knowledge, experimental manipulation, and natural philosophy
  16. 7 Seeing new things: The heavens
  17. 8 Novelty from experience
  18. 9 Making experimental knowledge
  19. 10 Casting a horoscope
  20. 11 Seeing new things
  21. 12 Systematic data-gathering
  22. 13 Experimental philosophy
  23. 14 Social data
  24. 15 Trade and the physical globe
  25. 16 Finding new phenomena: Electrical effects
  26. 17 Electricity: Balancing the books
  27. 18 How to make sense of diversity in nature
  28. 19 Building a Newtonian universe
  29. 20 Charles’s balloon ascent
  30. 21 Lavoisier’s work on water
  31. 22 Making chemistry rational
  32. 23 A new phenomenon: Current electricity
  33. 24 Human sciences: Philology and anthropology
  34. 25 Science and industry
  35. 26 Malthus and political economy
  36. Index