edited by David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1990.
xxvii, 551 p. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield : a preliminary sketch / David C. Lindberg -- Conceptions of science in the Scientific Revolution / Ernan McMullin -- Metaphysics and the new science / Gary Hatfield -- Proof, poetics, and patronage : Copernicus's preface to De revolutionibus / Robert S. Westman -- A reappraisal of the role of the universities in the Scientific Revolution / John Gascoigne -- Natural magic, hermetism, and occultism in early modern science / Brian P. Copenhaver -- Natural history and the emblematic world view / William B. Ashworth, Jr. -- From the secrets of nature to public knowledge / William Eamon -- Chemistry in the Scientific Revolution : problems of language and communication / Jan V. Golinski.
The new philosophy and medicine in seventeenth-century England / Harold J. Cook -- Science and heterodoxy : an early modern problem reconsidered / Michael Hunter -- Infinitesimals and transcendent relations : the mathematics of motion in the late seventeenth century / Michael S. Mahoney -- The case of mechanics : one revolution or many? / Alan Gabbey.
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A compendium offering broad reflections on the Scientific Revolution from a spectrum of scholars engaged in the study of 16th and 17th century science. Many accepted views and interpretations of the scientific revolution are challenged.