Baroque Science
Language: English
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 2013
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Baroque Science
- Author
- Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226923983
- ISBN 13
- 9780226923987
- Seller catalogs
- Art, History
Gal and Chen-Morris show how the protagonists of the new mathematical natural philosophy grasped at the very far and very small by entrusting observation to the mediation of artificial instruments, and how they justified this mediation by naturalizing and denigrating the human senses. They show how the physical-mathematical ordering of heavens and earth demanded obscure and spurious mathematical procedures, replacing the divine harmonies of the late Renaissance with an assemblage of isolated, contingent laws and approximated constants. Finally, they show how the new savants, forced to contend that reason is hopelessly estranged from its surrounding world and that nature is irreducibly complex, turned to the passions to provide an alternative, naturalized foundation for their epistemology and ethics.
Enforcing order in the face of threatening chaos, blurring the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, and mobilizing the passions in the service of objective knowledge, the New Science, Gal and Chen-Morris reveal, is a Baroque phenomenon: deeply entrenched in and crucially formative of the culture of its time.
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About the Author
Ofer Gal is associate professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney.
Raz Chen-Morris is a senior lecturer in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Bar-Ilan University.
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