Scientific practices in European history, 1200-1800 : a book of texts / Peter Dear.
Pubblicazione:
Abingdon : Routledge, 2018.
Descrizione fisica:
XI, 182 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Note:
Contiene passi scelti e tradotti di vari autori
Contiene:
Indice: List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction / by Peter Dear. 1. Navigating 2. Modelling a disputation: Quaestio from Aquinas 3. Making sense of the cosmos 4. Reordering the cosmos 5. Seeing new things: the New World 6. Practical knowledge, experimental manipulation and natural philosophy 7. Seeing new things: the heavens 8. Novelty from experience 9. Making experimental knowledge 10. Casting a horoscope 11. Seeing new things 12. Systematic data-gathering 13. Experimental philosophy 14. Social data 15. Trade and physical globe 16. Finding new phenomena: electrical effects 17. Electricity: balancing the books 18. How to make sense of diversity in nature 19. Building a Newtonian universe 20. Charles's balloon ascent 21. Lavoisier's work on water 22. Making chemistry rational 23. A new phenomenon: current electricity 24. Human sciences: philology and anthropology 25. Science and industry 26. Malthus and political economy. Index
Note galileane:
Per Galileo cfr. p. 47-56 (passi scelti dal Sidereus Nuncius); p. 64-72 (passi scelti dai Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze )
