Peter Robert Dear
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Robert Dear |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Dear |
| SIGNATURE | DEAR P R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Galileo's Instruments of Credit
Reviewed by: Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy Peter R. Dear (bio) Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. By Mario Biagioli . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 302. $35. Mario Biagioli's follow-up to his celebrated book Galileo, Courtier comprises four substantial chapters, three of which have been published in earlier forms. Perhaps as a result of this genesis, the book is considera…
Intelligibility in Science
The central issue that I want to address is that of "intelligibility" in the history of science. By using this term, however, I do not mean to imply simply an enterprise of analyzing more-or-less coherent conceptual structures, so as to be able to say that people believed a particular doctrine either because it was "consistent" with other ideas that they held, or else because it was strategically useful to them in the particular contexts in which…
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Toward a Heuristic Narrative for the Scientific Revolution Peter Dear (bio) The “Scientific Revolution” is nowadays, as a category, much less attractive to historians than it once was. It seems to carry overtones of Whiggish triumphalism that are widely seen as out of keeping with a proper scholarly understanding of issues to do with the making of European natural knowledge in the sixteenth and s…
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Toward a Heuristic Narrative for the Scientific Revolution Peter Dear (bio) The “Scientific Revolution” is nowadays, as a category, much less attractive to historians than it once was. It seems to carry overtones of Whiggish triumphalism that are widely seen as out of keeping with a proper scholarly understanding of issues to do with the making of European natural knowledge in the sixteenth and s…
Intelligibility in Science
The central issue that I want to address is that of "intelligibility" in the history of science. By using this term, however, I do not mean to imply simply an enterprise of analyzing more-or-less coherent conceptual structures, so as to be able to say that people believed a particular doctrine either because it was "consistent" with other ideas that they held, or else because it was strategically useful to them in the particular contexts in which…
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Toward a Heuristic Narrative for the Scientific Revolution Peter Dear (bio) The “Scientific Revolution” is nowadays, as a category, much less attractive to historians than it once was. It seems to carry overtones of Whiggish triumphalism that are widely seen as out of keeping with a proper scholarly understanding of issues to do with the making of European natural knowledge in the sixteenth and s…
Intelligibility in Science
The central issue that I want to address is that of "intelligibility" in the history of science. By using this term, however, I do not mean to imply simply an enterprise of analyzing more-or-less coherent conceptual structures, so as to be able to say that people believed a particular doctrine either because it was "consistent" with other ideas that they held, or else because it was strategically useful to them in the particular contexts in which…
Galileo's Instruments of Credit
Reviewed by: Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy Peter R. Dear (bio) Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy. By Mario Biagioli . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 302. $35. Mario Biagioli's follow-up to his celebrated book Galileo, Courtier comprises four substantial chapters, three of which have been published in earlier forms. Perhaps as a result of this genesis, the book is considera…
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