Wolfgang Lefèvre

Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature - 1450-1750 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive account of the co-evolution of technological and scientific literature in the early modern period (1450-1750). It examines the various relationships of these literatures in six areas of knowledge - Architecture, Chemistry, Gunnery, Mechanical Engineering, Mining, and Practical Mathematics - which represent the main types of advanced technological and scientific knowledge of the era. In this way, the volume tries to convey a new idea of the variety and disunity of the early modern interrelations and interactions between learned and practical knowledge. The book will be primarily of interest to historians of science and technology and can serve as a textbook in these fields of study. Since the book addresses fundamental aspects of the significance that the emergence and development of the modern natural and technological sciences have for the self-image of the West, it will also be of interest to a wider readership.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030730857
• Artikelnr.: 62103747

Autorenporträt

Wolfgang Lefèvre is a professor of philosophy and historian of science affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin). From 1972 until 1992, he taught philosophy in connection with the history of science at several German universities. His publications include Naturtheorie und Produktionsweise (1978), Die Entstehung der biologischen Evolutionstheorie (1984), (together with Falk Wunderlich:) Kants naturtheoretische Begriffe (1747-1780) (2000), (edited:) Picturing Machines (2004), (together with Marcus Popplow:) Database Machine Drawings (2006), (together with Ursula Klein:) Materials in Eighteenth-Century Science (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.- Introduction.- Chapter I - Architecture.- Chapter II - Chemistry.- Chapter III - Gunnery.- Chapter IV - Mechanical Engineering.- Chapter V - Mining Science.- Chapter VI - Practical Mathematics.- Epilog.- List of References.- Index.- Picture Credits.

Rezensionen

"Minerva Meets Vulcan, Lefèvre studies in great detail several of these examples, providing a philosophical analysis of the technical literature and its impact upon theoretical knowledge. Because of this, his book is a highly recommendable source for anyone studying the history of natural philosophy in the early modern period." (Doina-Cristina Rusu, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte - History of Science and Humanities, July 16, 2023)