The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry - Hardcover

Cohen, H. Floris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226112799 ISBN 13: 9780226112794

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the nineteenth century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it.

Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, to the question of why the Scientific Revolution took place in seventeenth-century Western Europe, rather than in ancient Greece, China, or the Islamic world. Cohen contends that the emergence of early modern science was essential to the rise of the modern world, in the way it fostered advances in technology.

A valuable entrée to the literature on the Scientific Revolution, this book assesses both a controversial body of scholarship, and contributes to understanding how modern science came into the world.

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In this ambitious historiography of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of nineteenth-and twentieth-century scholarship and offers new perspectives on how historians have conceived of the Scientific Revolution and the ways in which the event has changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226112799
• ISBN 13: 9780226112794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 680