Science in the Age of Baroque
This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surround...
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| Formaat: | Livre numérique |
| Taal: | Anglais |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands
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Cham : Springer Nature |
| Reeks: | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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| Online toegang: | Accès sur la plateforme Springer Accès sur la plateforme ISTEX Accès Université d'Orléans |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Science in the Age of Baroque, Texte imprimé, 9789400748088 • Science in the Age of Baroque, Texte imprimé, 9789400795136 • Science in the age of Baroque, Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris, editors, Dordrecht, Springer, 2013, 1 vol. (VI-313 p.), Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 978-94-007-4806-4 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- 1. Ofer Gal and Raz Chen Morris: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge
- A. Order
- 2. John Schuster: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy?
- 3. Koen Vermeir: Bent And Directed Towards Him: A Baroque Perspective on Kircher s Sunflower Clock
- 4. Ofer Gal: From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science
- B. Vision
- 5. Raz Chen-Morris: The Quality of Nothing, Or Kepler's Visual Economy of Science
- 6. Paula Findlen: Agostino Scilla: A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science
- 7. J.B. Shank: What Exactly Was Torricelli s Barometer?
- 8. Alan Salter: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan
- C. Excess
- 9. John Gascoigne: Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World
- 10. Nicholas Dew: The Hive and the Pendulum: Universal Metrology and Baroque Science.-11. Victor Boantza: Chymical Philosophy and Boyle s Incongruous Philosophical Chymistry.-12 Rivka Feldhay: The Simulation of Nature and the Dissimulation of the Law on a Baroque Stage: Galileo and the Church Revisited .