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Science In Europe 1500 - 1800 A Primary Sources Reader
Paperback Edition: 1
This volume provides a documentary history of perhaps the most significant event in human history - the Scientific Revolution. Using primary sources to discover the conceptual and institutional foundations of modern science, the reader explores the worlds of science and religion, scholars and craftsmen, patronage
and the occult. This is a key resource both for students of the history of science and others, offering a broad range of texts which emphasise the interplay of the social, cultural and intellectual traditions of early modern Europe.
Contents: Introduction - Europe's Awakening - Copernicus and his Revolution - The Spread of Copernicanism in Northern Europe - Crisis in Italy - Iberian Science - Science from the Earth in Central Europe - French Science in the Seventeenth Century - Science in Seventeenth-Century England - Scientific Academies across Europe - The Reception of Newtonianism across Europe - Science in the Scottish Enlightenment - Science on the Fringe of Europe: Eighteenth-Century Sweden - Science in Orthodox Europe - Establishing Science in Eigtheenth-Century Europe - The Chemical Revolution - Conclusions
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Pages : 336
Publisher : Palgrave
Publication date : 2001-11-12
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