Brendan Dooley

Science and the Marketplace in Early Modern Italy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Galvani and Volta underwent two revolutions. This text is concerned with the revolution in published communications and in its research, aims to show that the accomplishments of Galvani and Volta were not based upon a cultural void.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 160mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9780739102329
• ISBN-10: 073910232X
• Artikelnr.: 21335890

Autorenporträt

Brendan Dooley is Associate Professor of History and Social Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of Italy in the Baroque: Selected Readings(1995), and Science, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Italy(1991).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Crime of Galileo Chapter 3 The
Business of the Occult Chapter 4 Printing Natural Knowledge Chapter 5
Nature and the Universities Chapter 6 Teaching and Learning Chapter 7
Saving the Jesuit's Skin Chapter 8 Science and the Public Sphere Chapter 9
Epilogue