Michael Hunter (ed.)

Archives of the Scientific Revolution

The Formation and Exchange of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Herausgeber: Hunter, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The seventeenth century in Western Europe remains the key time and place for the development of modern science; the basic theme of this book is what the nature of seventeenth-century archives can tell us about this development, through a series of case studies (Boyle, Galileo, Huygens, Newton included).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 221
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780851155531
• ISBN-10: 0851155537
• Artikelnr.: 22759501

Autorenporträt

Michael Hunter

Inhaltsangabe

`Image versus Reality: the Archives of the French Académie des Sciences'
(with Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère). - Introduction - Michael Hunter
Celebration and conservation: the Galilean collection of the national
library of Florence - Massimo Bucciantini Archive refractions: Hartlib's
papers and the workings of an intelligencer - Mark Greengrass Between
erudition and science: the archive and correspondence network of Ismaël
Bouillau - Robert A. Hatch Ireland as a laboratory: the archive of Sir
William Petty - Frances Harris The archives of Christiaan Huygens and his
editors - Joella G. Yoder The achive and Consulti of Marcello Malpighi:
some preliminary reflections - Domenico Bertoloni Meli Mapping the mind of
Robert Boyle: the evidence of the Boyle papers - Michael Hunter A
`connected system'? The snare of a beautiful hand and the unity of Newton's
archive - Robert C Iliffe `A chaos of jottings that I do not have the
leisure to arrange and mark with headings': Leibniz's manuscript papers and
their repositoryrepository - James G. O'Hara Of records and grandeur: the
archive of the royal society - Mordechai Feingold Image versus reality: the
archives of the French Académie des Sciences' (with David Sturdy) -
Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyere