Knowing and doing in the sixteenth century
What were instruments for
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8395804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Bennett (Museum of the History of Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 129-150 |
| Publication date | 2003-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0874 • E-ISSN: 1474-001X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s000708740300503x |
| OpenAlex | W2094660905 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Despite recent work on scientific instruments by historians of science, the meeting ground between historians and curators of collections has been disappointingly narrow. This study offers, first, a characterization of sixteenth-century mathematical instruments, drawing on the work of curators, as represented by the online database Epact . An examination of the relationship between these instruments and the natural world suggests that the ‘theoric’, familiar from studies of the history of astronomy, has a wider relevance to the domain of practical mathematics. This outcome from a study of collections is then used in re-examining an established question in the history of science, the position of William Gilbert on the motion of the Earth
Astronomy · Epistemology · History of astronomy · History of science · Motion (physics · Natural history · Physics · Political science · Position (finance · Relevance (law · Scientific instrument · Work (physics · Artificial Intelligence · Classics · Computer Science · Ecology · Engineering · Historical Philosophy and Science · History · History of Science and Medicine · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy
Le renouveau de l’histoire des instruments scientifiques
Maurice Daumas et Les instruments scientifiques aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
History of Mathematics and History of Science
The view from here, there and nowhere? Situating the observer in the planetarium and in the solar system
Instruments and demonstrations in the astrological curriculum
The book as instrument
Instrumentos e o "saber-fazer" matemático no século XVI
On scientific instruments
Kepler’s optics without hypotheses
State of the field
The diagrammatic dimension of William Gilbert's De magnete
Early modern mathematical practice in the round
Toward a more instrument-centered biography from object agency to object individuality
Bons procédés entre érudits
Objects and the Museum
Introduction
Knowledge that traveled between Italy and Spain during the Franco regime
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,81 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |