书目名称 | Science in the Age of Baroque |
编辑 | Ofer Gal,Raz Chen-Morris |
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概述 | New interpretations of major themes in 17th century scientific thought.Innovative examination of the Baroque qualities of canonical figures of the scientific revolution from Kepler to Newton.A new his |
丛书名称 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées |
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描述 | This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surrounding them, as well as the obsessions, anxieties and aspirations they share, such as the foundations of order, the power and peril of mediation and the conflation of the natural and the artificial. The essays also take on the historiographical issues involved: the characterization of culture in general and culture of knowledge in particular; the use of generalizations like ‘Baroque’ and the status of such categories; and the role of these in untangling the historical complexities of the tumultuous 17th century. The canonical protagonists of the ‘Scientific Revolution’ are considered, and so are some obscure and suppressed figures: Galileo side by side with Scheiner;Torricelli together with Kircher; Newton as well as Scilla. The coupling of Baroque and Science defies both the still-triumphalist historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and the slight embarrassment that the Baroque rep |
出版日期 | Book 2013 |
关键词 | Newton; Scientific Revolution; baroque and science; baroque culture; foundations of order; new science of |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4807-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-9513-6 |
isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-4807-1Series ISSN 0066-6610 Series E-ISSN 2215-0307 |
issn_series | 0066-6610 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 |