The Rise of Modern Science Explained
A Comparative History
(Sprache: Englisch)
Authoritative and highly accessible account of how and why modern science arose in Europe through sustained comparison with other civilisations.
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Authoritative and highly accessible account of how and why modern science arose in Europe through sustained comparison with other civilisations.
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For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Bacon and many others gave revolutionary new twists to traditional ideas and practices, culminating in the work of Isaac Newton half a century later. It was as if the world was being created anew. But why did this recreation begin in Europe rather than elsewhere? This book caps H. Floris Cohen's career-long effort to find answers to this classic question. Here he sets forth a rich but highly accessible account of what, against many odds, made it happen and why.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Rise of Modern Science Explained “
Introduction: the old world and the new; 1. To begin at the beginning: nature-knowledge in Greece and China; 2. Islamic civilization and medieval and Renaissance-Europe; 3. Three revolutionary transformations; 4. A crisis surmounted; 5. Expansion, threefold; 6. Revolutionary transformation continued; Epilogue: a look back and a look ahead; Timeline 1: pre-1600; Timeline 2: 1600-1700; Literature; Provenance of quoted passages; Index.
Autoren-Porträt von H. Floris Cohen
Cohen, H. Floris H. Floris Cohen studied history at Leyden University. He is Professor of Comparative History of Science at Utrecht University, where he serves as the Editor of the History of Science Society (journal: Isis). He first explored the rise of modern science by way of writing Quantifying Music (1984), and examined how other historians conceived of the rise of modern science in The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry (1994). He solved the problem of how modern science arose in How Modern Science Came Into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough (2010), of which the present volume is a shorter version, written in a different tone of voice for a larger academic public.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: H. Floris Cohen
- 2015, 301 Seiten, 15 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 15,3 x 22,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10: 1107545609
- ISBN-13: 9781107545601
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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'In this fresh and boldly innovative study, H. Floris Cohen challenges the general reader with a new, long-term, global framework for thinking comparatively about the historical conditions that produced those recognizably modern forms of scientific knowledge that took root in seventeenth-century Europe.' Robert S. Westman, University of California, San Diego
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