Screen LibraryThe Cambridge history of philosophy of the scientific revolution /
"Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all those of Aristotle. Then the humanist re-discovery and translation of various ancient philosophical works led the number of "author...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all those of Aristotle. Then the humanist re-discovery and translation of various ancient philosophical works led the number of "authorities" to grow, and alongside a monolithic "Aristotelianism" emerged any number of "-isms": Stoicism, Epicureanism, Platonism, Skepticism, and so on. Gradually, philosophers realized that they need not need rely on authorities at all, and began to use their own reason, coupled with experience and experiment. Scholasticism and humanism were dead, and the "Age of Reason" had begun, with Descartes as its iconoclastic father (perhaps with a little help from Bacon)"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 536 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-523) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108420303 1108420303 9781108413671 1108413676 |
| Index Number: | Q174 |
| CLC: |
N09 N02 |
| Call Number: | N02/C178 |
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Machine generated contents note: THE DISCIPLINES -- The Uses of Ancient Philosophy / Novatores / Renaissance Aristotelianism(s) / What To Do With the Mechanical Philosophy? / The Later Sects: Cartesians, Gassendists, Leibnizians, and Newtonians / Confessionalization and Natural Philosophy / The Rise of a Public Science? Women and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period / DISCIPLINARY ACTIVITIES -- The Art of Thinking / Astrology, Natural Magic, and the Scientific Revolution / Practitioners' Knowledge / Medicine and the Science of the Living Body / Experimental Natural History / Celestial Physics / Applying Mathematics to Nature / Mathematical Innovation and Tradition: The Cartesian Common and the Leibnizian New Analyses / Mechanics in Newton's Wake / PROBLEMS AND CONTROVERSIES -- Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius and Its Reception / Instruments and the Senses / Science of Mind / Circulation and the New Physiology / From Metaphysical Principles to Dynamical Laws / The Debate About Body and Extension / Space and Its Relationship to God / The Vis Viva Controversy / |