Margaret J. Osler

Rethinking the Scientific Revolution

Herausgeber: Osler, Margaret J.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9780521661010
• ISBN-10: 0521661013
• Artikelnr.: 21678804

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the canonical imperative: rethinking the scientific
revolution Margaret J. Osler; Part I. The Canon in Question: 1. Newton as
final cause and first mover Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs; 2. The scientific
revolution reasserted; Part II. Canonical Disciplines Reformed: 3. The role
of religion in the Lutheran response to Copernicus Peter Barker; 4.
Catholic natural philosophy: alchemy and the revivication of Sir Kenelm
Digby Bruce Janacek; 5. Vital spirits: redemption, artisanship, and the new
philosophy of Early Modern Europe Pamela Smith; 6. 'The terriblest eclipse
that hath been seen in our days': Black Monday and the debate on astrology
during the Interregnum William E. Burns; 7. Arguing about nothing: Henry
More and Robert Boyle on the theological implications of the void Jane E.
Jenkins; Part III. Canonical Figures Reconsidered: 8. Pursuing knowledge:
Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton Lawrence M. Principe; 9. The alchemies of
Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton: alternative approaches and divergent
deployments; 10. The Janus faces of science in the seventeenth century:
Athanasius Kircher and Isaac Newton; 11. The nature of Newton's 'holy
alliance' between science and religion: from the scientific revolution to
Newton (and back again); 12. Newton and Spinoza and the Bible scholarship
of the day Richard H. Popkin; 13. The fate of the date: the theology of
Newton's Principia revisited; Part IV. The Canon Reconstructed: 14. The
truth of Newton's science and the truth of science's history: heroic
science at its eighteenth-century formulation.