The Rise Of Modern Science Explained
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Author |
: H. Floris Cohen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2015-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316404782 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316404781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of Modern Science Explained by : H. Floris Cohen
For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Bacon and many others gave revolutionary new twists to traditional ideas and practices, culminating in the work of Isaac Newton half a century later. It was as if the world was being created anew. But why did this recreation begin in Europe rather than elsewhere? This book caps H. Floris Cohen's career-long effort to find answers to this classic question. Here he sets forth a rich but highly accessible account of what, against many odds, made it happen and why.
Author |
: H. F. Cohen |
Publisher |
: Amsterdam University Press |
Total Pages |
: 825 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789089642394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9089642390 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Modern Science Came Into the World by : H. F. Cohen
Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket - so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Floris Cohen now comes up with precisely such a replacement. Key to his path-breaking analysis-cum-narrative is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct yet narrowly interconnected, revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five to thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world. It also enables him to explain how half-way into the 17th century a vast crisis of legitimacy could arise and, in the end, be overcome.
Author |
: Marie Boas Hall |
Publisher |
: Courier Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 2013-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780486144993 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0486144992 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 by : Marie Boas Hall
A noted historian of science examines the Coperican revolution, the anatomical work of Vesalius, the work of Paracelsus, Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system, the effects of Galileo's telescopic discoveries, more.
Author |
: Steven Weinberg |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2015-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062346674 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062346679 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis To Explain the World by : Steven Weinberg
A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato’s Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world—they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy. An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human knowledge and development.
Author |
: H. Floris Cohen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2015-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107120068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107120063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of Modern Science Explained by : H. Floris Cohen
Covers scientific discovery from approximately 1500-1699.--
Author |
: Peter J. Bowler |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 539 |
Release |
: 2010-02-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226068626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226068625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making Modern Science by : Peter J. Bowler
The development of science, according to respected scholars Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus, expands our knowledge and control of the world in ways that affect-but are also affected by-society and culture. In Making Modern Science, a text designed for introductory college courses in the history of science and as a single-volume introduction for the general reader, Bowler and Morus explore both the history of science itself and its influence on modern thought. Opening with an introduction that explains developments in the history of science over the last three decades and the controversies these initiatives have engendered, the book then proceeds in two parts. The first section considers key episodes in the development of modern science, including the Scientific Revolution and individual accomplishments in geology, physics, and biology. The second section is an analysis of the most important themes stemming from the social relations of science-the discoveries that force society to rethink its religious, moral, or philosophical values. Making Modern Science thus chronicles all major developments in scientific thinking, from the revolutionary ideas of the seventeenth century to the contemporary issues of evolutionism, genetics, nuclear physics, and modern cosmology. Written by seasoned historians, this book will encourage students to see the history of science not as a series of names and dates but as an interconnected and complex web of relationships between science and modern society. The first survey of its kind, Making Modern Science is a much-needed and accessible introduction to the history of science, engagingly written for undergraduates and curious readers alike.
Author |
: Edward Grant |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1996-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521567629 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521567626 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages by : Edward Grant
This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.
Author |
: Richard Dawkins |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 439 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199216819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199216819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by : Richard Dawkins
Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory.This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whoseworks have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.
Author |
: Alfred Rupert Hall |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B5096754 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of Modern Science: From Galileo to Newton, 1630-1720, by A. R. Hall by : Alfred Rupert Hall
Author |
: James Edward McClellan |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 504 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801883598 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801883590 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science and Technology in World History by : James Edward McClellan
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