Floris Cohen

How Modern Science Came into the World (eBook, PDF)

Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 832
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789048512737
• Artikelnr.: 50400627

Autorenporträt

Cohen Floris :

H. Floris Cohen is professor of comparative history of science at Utrecht University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue
Part I. Nature-Knowledge in Traditional Society
I. Greek foundations
Chinese contrasts
II. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted: the islamic world
III. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted in part: medieval Europe
IV. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted
and more: renaissance Europe
Part II. Three revolutionary transformations
V. The first transformation: realist-mathematical science
VI. The second transformation: a kinetic-corpuscularian philosophy of nature
VII. The third transformation: to find facts through experiment
VIII. Concurrence explained
IX. Prospects around 1640
Part III. Dynamics of the Revolution
X. Achievements and limitations of realist-mathematical science
XI. Achievements and limitations of kinetic corpuscularianism
XII. Legitimacy in the balance
XIII. Achievements and limitations of fact-finding experimentalism
XIV. Nature-knowledge decompartmentalized
XV. The fourth transformation: corpuscular motion geometrized
XVI. The fifth transformation: the baconian brew
XVII. Legitimacy of a new kind
XVIII. Nature-knowledge by 1684: the achievement so far
XIX. The sixth transformation: the newtonian synthesis
Epilogue
Notes on literature used
Endnotes
Name index
Subject index.