Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800
A Book of Texts
Peter Dear
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Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800
A Book of Texts
Peter Dear
Ă propos de ce livre
Scientific Practices in European History, 1200â1800 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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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover-Page
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Navigating
- 2 Modelling a disputation (Quaestio from Aquinas)
- 3 Making sense of the cosmos
- 4 Reordering the Cosmos
- 5 Seeing new things: The New World
- 6 Practical knowledge, experimental manipulation, and natural philosophy
- 7 Seeing new things: The heavens
- 8 Novelty from experience
- 9 Making experimental knowledge
- 10 Casting a horoscope
- 11 Seeing new things
- 12 Systematic data-gathering
- 13 Experimental philosophy
- 14 Social data
- 15 Trade and the physical globe
- 16 Finding new phenomena: Electrical effects
- 17 Electricity: Balancing the books
- 18 How to make sense of diversity in nature
- 19 Building a Newtonian universe
- 20 Charlesâs balloon ascent
- 21 Lavoisierâs work on water
- 22 Making chemistry rational
- 23 A new phenomenon: Current electricity
- 24 Human sciences: Philology and anthropology
- 25 Science and industry
- 26 Malthus and political economy
- Index