Truth(s)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20049409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mikulas Teich (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 75-82 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Scientific Revolution Revisited (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11647/obp.0054.04 |
| OpenAlex | W4247605656 |
| ISBN | 9781783741229 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 46 |
With a narrative that moves from pre-classical thought to the European institutionalisation of science – and a scope that embraces figures both lionised and neglected, such as Nicole Oresme, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Thaddeus Hagecius, Johann Joachim Becher – The Scientific Revolution Revisited illuminates the social and intellectual sea changes that shaped the modern world
Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
The measure of reality
The great instauration
Time's arrow, time's cycle
The grand titration
The World and Other Writings
Linnaeus
The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution
The Enlightenment in National Context
The Unbound Prometheus
Die soziale Funktion der Wissenschaft
Hobbes and Republican Liberty
The Scientific Revolution in National Context
China, the West, and World History in Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire in 1500
Rethinking the Scientific Revolution
The Reformation in National Context
The Canonical Imperative
Instruments, travel and science
Golden means
Matters of Exchange
Linnaeus, The Man and His Work
Shorter Notices
Europe's Tragedy
On the Shoulders of Merchants
J. D. Bernal the historian and the Scientific-Technical Revolution
The birth of history and philosophy of science
Interdisciplinary in J.J. Becher's thought
Mathematics and the Art of Navigation
Methods and Problems in Greek Science
The Hessen-Grossman Thesis
Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning
Your astronomers and ours differ exceedingly’
The Royal Society, natural history and the peoples of the ‘New World(s)’, 1660–1800
The biological precedents for medieval impetus theory and its Aristotelian character
The dilemmas of seditious men
Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution
De-centring the 'big picture
The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Concept of Scientific Revolution
The Development of Modern Chemistry
"The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's "Principia
European Proto-Industrialization
Early Greek Science
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Moulds of Understanding
The Sociological Roots of Science
| Highly cited | No |
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