1. Edition - April 2001
35.90 Euro
2001. 288 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 0-631-22711-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-631-22711-3 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed description
This history of the birth of modern science shatters the illusion that science is 'dry' and divorced from culture by exploring the powerful clashes between traditions and value systems that gave rise to it. The author shows how many of the characteristics that distinguish science today emerged in the midst of the wars and plagues of the seventeenth century and defines what was new about this form of knowledge.

From the contents
Series Editor's Preface by Jacques Le Goff.

Introduction.

1. Obstacles.

2. Secrets.

3. Engineers.

4. The Unseen World.

5. A New Universe.

6. Galileo.

7. Descartes.

8. Countless Other Worlds.

9. Mechanical Philosophy.

10. Chemical Philosophy.

11. Magnetic Philosophy.

12. The Heart and Generation.

13. Time and Nature.

14. Classification.

15. Instruments and Theories.

16. Academies.

17. Newton.

Chronology.

Bibliography.

Index.