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      • Volume 3: Early Modern Science
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2008
      July 2006
      ISBN:
      9781139054010
      9780521572446
      9781107553668
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521572446
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.34kg, 894 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.32kg, 894 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, History of Philosophy, History, Regional History after 1500, History of Science: General Interest
      Collections:
      Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
      Series:
      The Cambridge History of Science
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, History of Philosophy, History, Regional History after 1500, History of Science: General Interest
    Collections:
    Cambridge Histories - Global History, Cambridge Histories - Philosophy & Political Thought
    Series:
    The Cambridge History of Science
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    This book provides a comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, c.1500–1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how new ideas, discoveries, and institutions shaped the ways in which nature came to be studied, understood, and used. Part I frames the study of 'The New Nature' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Part II surveys the 'Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge'. Part III treats the study of nature by discipline, following the classification of the sciences current in early modern Europe. Part IV takes up the implications of the new natural knowledge for religion, literature, art, gender, and European identity.

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    'Undoubtedly this hefty volume is a necessary addition to the libraries of early modern scholars and to the bibliography of any course covering science in the early modern period.’

    Source: British Journal for the History of Science

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