Baroque science /
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The University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago ; London : |
Publication Dates: | 2013. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
9780226923987 (cloth : alk. paper) : 0226923983 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226212982 (pbk.) 022621298X (pbk.) 0226923991 (e-book) 9780226923994 (e-book) |
Index Number: | Q127 |
CLC: | N095 |
Call Number: | N095/G146 |
Contents: | Observation : Science's disappearing observer: baroque optics and the enlightenment of vision -- Per aenigmate: mirrors and lenses as cognitive tools in medieval and renaissance Europe -- The specter of the telescope: radical instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke -- Mathematization: Nature's drawing: problems and resolutions in the mathematization of motion -- From divine order to human approximation: mathematics in baroque science -- The emergence of baroque mathematical natural philosophy: an archeology of the inverse -- Square law -- Passions: Passions, imagination, and the persona of the |