The Scientific Revolution - 2nd edition

Informationen zum Autor Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. His books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump (with Simon Schaffer), A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England , and The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation. Klappentext "There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it". With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific world view. "Shapin's treatise on the currents that engendered modern science is a combination of history and philosophy of science for the interested and educated layperson".--"Publishers Weekly". 30 photos. Zusammenfassung In this classic of science history, Shapin takes into account the culture – the variety of beliefs, practices, and influences – that in the 1600s shaped the origins of the modern scientific worldview.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Shapin, Shapin Steven
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2018
• EAN: 9780226398341
• ISBN: 978-0-226-39834-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Series: science.culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), History of Science, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance