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      • Edited by Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, University College London, Mikulas Teich, University of Cambridge
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      25 September 1992
      ISBN:
      9781139170215
      9780521395106
      9780521396998
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139170215
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.587kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.585kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, General Science
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    History of Science, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies, General Science
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    The 'scientific revolution' of the sixteenth and seventeenth century continues to command attention in historical debate. Controversy still rages about the extent to which it was essentially a 'revolution of the mind', or how far it must also be explained by wider considerations. In this volume, leading scholars of early modern science argue the importance of specifically national contexts for understanding the transformation in natural philosophy between Copernicus and Newton. Distinct political, religious, cultural and linguistic formations shaped scientific interests and concerns differently in each European state and explain different levels of scientific intensity. Questions of institutional development and of the transmission of scientific ideas are also addressed. The emphasis upon national determinants makes this volume an interesting contribution to the study of the Scientific Revolution.

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    ‘In this successful formula the subject is essentially treated by specialists on a national basis, this volume offering France (L. W. Brockliss), the German Lands (William Clark), the Low Countries (Harold Cook), Poland (Jerzy Dobrzycki), Iberia (David Goodman), England (John Henry), Bohemia (Josef Smolka), Sweden (Sven Widmalm), Italy (Mario Biagoli), and Scotland (Paul Wood), as well as an editorial introduction.’

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