The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe

The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe
Author: Mordechai Feingold
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004416870

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This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe, from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal.

Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time

Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time
Author: Paul W. Rhode
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 703
Release: 2011-01-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0804777624

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This book challenges the static, ahistorical models on which Economics continues to rely. These models presume that markets operate on a "frictionless" plane where abstract forces play out independent of their institutional and spatial contexts, and of the influences of the past. In reality, at any point in time exogenous factors are themselves outcomes of complex historical processes. They are shaped by institutional and spatial contexts, which are "carriers of history," including past economic dynamics and market outcomes. To examine the connections between gradual, evolutionary change and more dramatic, revolutionary shifts the text takes on a wide array of historically salient economic questions—ranging from how formative, European encounters reconfigured the political economies of indigenous populations in Africa, the Americas, and Australia to how the rise and fall of the New Deal order reconfigured labor market institutions and outcomes in the twentieth century United States. These explorations are joined by a common focus on formative institutions, spatial structures, and market processes. Through historically informed economic analyses, contributors recognize the myriad interdependencies among these three frames, as well as their distinct logics and temporal rhythms.

Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Primary Sources Reader

Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Primary Sources Reader
Author: Malcolm Oster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2020-02-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0230214576

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The period from Copernicus to Newton witnessed a Scientific Revolution which eventually led to modern science and both built upon and sharply challenged the earlier natural philosophies of the classical world. Science in Europe, 1500-1800: A Primary Sources Readeroffers a fascinating picture of the world of the scientific revolution through the eyes of those involved. This selection of primary sources is geographically inclusive, including often-neglected areas such as Spain, Scandinavia and central-eastern Europe, and thematically wide-ranging, illustrating early modern Europe's interplay of social, cultural and intellectual traditions. A key resource for all students and teachers of the history of science, Malcolm Oster's masterly collection offers an introduction to the conceptual and institutional foundations of modern science. This volume can be used alongside or independently of its companion volume, Science in Europe: 1500-1800: A Secondary Sources Reader (also edited by Malcolm Oster).

Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe

Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe
Author: David Beck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317317386

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Today we are used to clear divisions between science and the arts. But early modern thinkers had no such distinctions, with ‘knowledge’ being a truly interdisciplinary pursuit. Each chapter of this collection presents a case study from a different area of knowledge.

Revolutionizing the Sciences

Revolutionizing the Sciences
Author: Peter Dear
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2018-11-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1352003147

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This heavily revised third edition of an award-winning text offers a keen insight into the development of scientific thought in early modern Europe. Including coverage of the central scientific figures of the time, including Copernicus, Kelper, Galileo, Newton and Bacon, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how the Scientific Revolution happened and why. Highlighting Europe's colonial and trade expansion in the sixteenth and 17th centuries, Peter Dear traces the revolution in scientific thought that changed the natural world from something to be contemplated into something to be used. This book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Early Modern history, European history, history of medicine, history of science and technology and the history and philosophy of science. The first edition was the winner of the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society. New to this Edition: - Greater treatment of alchemy and associated craft activities, to reflect ongoing new scholarship - More focus on geographical issues, especially relating to Spain and its New World territories, as well as Eastern Europe, but also further afield in Islamic territories including the Ottoman Empire, and South and East Asia - New material on the themes of 'science and religion', gender and class - More extensive treatment of the relationship in this period of medicine to the various sciences and especially to new natural philosophies - Incorporation of new scholarship throughout - A whole chapter dedicated to Francis Bacon - Further discussion of the gendered elements of natural philosophy - A brand new historiographical essay

Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800

Scientific Practices in European History, 1200-1800
Author: Peter Dear
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351627740

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Scientific Practices in European History, 1200–1800 presents and situates a collection of extracts from both widely known texts by such figures as Copernicus, Newton, and Lavoisier, and lesser known but significant items, all chosen to provide a perspective on topics in social, cultural and intellectual history and to illuminate the concerns of the early modern period. The selection of extracts highlights the emerging technical preoccupations of this period, while the accompanying introductions and annotations make these occasionally complex works accessible to students and non-specialists. The book follows a largely chronological sequence and helps to locate scientific ideas and practices within broader European history. The primary source materials in this collection stand alone as texts in themselves, but in illustrating the scientific components of early modern societies they also make this book ideal for teachers and students of European history.

Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Author: Pamela H. Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2008-06-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780226763286

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The fruits of knowledge—such as books, data, and ideas—tend to generate far more attention than the ways in which knowledge is produced and acquired. Correcting this imbalance, Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe brings together a wide-ranging yet tightly integrated series of essays that explore how knowledge was obtained and demonstrated in Europe during an intellectually explosive four centuries, when standard methods of inquiry took shape across several fields of intellectual pursuit. Composed by scholars in disciplines ranging from the history of science to art history to religious studies, the pieces collected here look at the production and consumption of knowledge as a social process within many different communities. They focus, in particular, on how the methods employed by scientists and intellectuals came to interact with the practices of craftspeople and practitioners to create new ways of knowing. Examining the role of texts, reading habits, painting methods, and countless other forms of knowledge making, this volume brilliantly illuminates the myriad ways these processes affected and were affected by the period’s monumental shifts in culture and learning.

The Rise of Early Modern Science

The Rise of Early Modern Science
Author: Toby E. Huff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2017-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107130212

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In this revised third edition, Toby E. Huff charts the rise of early modern science within Europe, China and Islamic civilisations.

Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe

Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe
Author: Ursula Klein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226439704

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It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences’ systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe, the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on experience united with higher learning. In an age when chemistry, mineralogy, geology, and botany intersected with mining, metallurgy, pharmacy, and gardening, materials were objects that crossed disciplines. Here, the contributors tell the stories of metals, clay, gunpowder, pigments, and foods, and thereby demonstrate the innovative practices of technical experts, the development of the consumer market, and the formation of the observational and experimental sciences in the early modern period. Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe showcases a broad variety of forms of knowledge, from ineffable bodily skills and technical competence to articulated know-how and connoisseurship, from methods of measuring, data gathering, and classification to analytical and theoretical knowledge. By exploring the hybrid expertise involved in the making, consumption, and promotion of various materials, and the fluid boundaries they traversed, the book offers an original perspective on important issues in the history of science, medicine, and technology.

The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages

The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages
Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521567626

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This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.