Inventing the Scientific Revolution
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3363103 |
|---|---|
| Autores | James A Secord (0000-0001-5263-0782, University of Cambridge, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2023 |
| Volumen | 114 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 50-76 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Editorial | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/723630 |
| OpenAlex | W4321507599 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 5 |
| Referencias citadas | 50 |
As a master narrative for understanding the emergence of the modern world, the concept of a seventeenth-century scientific revolution has been central to the history of science. It is generally believed that this key analytical framework was created in Europe and became widely used for the first time during the Cold War, particularly through the writings of Herbert Butterfield and Alexander Koyré. This view, however, is mistaken. The scientific revolution is largely a product of debates in the United States about social reconstruction in the aftermath of World War I. Promoted in a pioneering book by the Austrian immigrant Martha Ornstein, highlighted in a provocative bestseller by the historian James Harvey Robinson, the scientific revolution was taught in thousands of interwar high schools and colleges. Based on John Dewey’s advocacy of “the scientific method” and on evolutionary psychology and anthropology, the concept underpinned campaigns for women’s rights, racial equality, secular humanism, and global peace. These progressive political ambitions were abandoned after World War II, when the scientific revolution became fundamental not only to forging the history of science as a discipline, but also to redefining what it meant to be “modern” during an era of decolonisation and the consolidation of global capitalism
Art · Capitalism · Epistemology · Humanism · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Scientific revolution · Social science · Sociology · World history · World War II · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History
Women Scientists in America
How we think.
Reconstruction in philosophy.
The Origins of Modern Science
Butterfield’s nightmare
Problems with the Word Made Flesh
The New History-Then and Now
The Outline of History
Setting up a Discipline
Galileo and the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century
A History of Universalism
The pre-history of an academic discipline
The Human Comedy. As Devised and Directed by Mankind Itself . James Harvey Robinson
Man and His Changing Society
Epistemology for the Masses
History of Science Today, 1. Uniformity as Hidden Diversity
Moralizing science
De-centring the 'big picture
Middle-Ground Pragmatists
The Scientific Revolution
The rôle of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century. Martha Ornstein
The Ghost of Rostow
Professionalization Recollected in Tranquility
Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England
Hyperprofessionalism and the Crisis of Readership in the History of Science
How Science Became Technical
Science's Imagined Pasts
The Present and the Past in the English Industrial Revolution 1880-1980
The Scientific Revolution
The Place of Science in Modern Civilization
Inventing the axial age
| Obras citantes distintas | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 1,67 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 5 |