The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe

Giulia Giannini Mordechai Feingold

ISBN 10: 9004416862 / ISBN 13: 9789004416864

Published by Brill Dez 2019, 2019

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Neuware - This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe--including the Accademia del Cimento in Florence; the Royal Society in London; the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris; and the Academia naturae curiosorum in Schweinfurt. The essays detail the multiple backgrounds that prompted seventeenth-century savants--from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal--to establish new forms of scientific organizations, in which to institutionalize collaborative research as well as modes of communication with like-minded individuals and associations.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Institutionalization of Science in Early Modern Europe
• Publisher: Brill Dez 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004416862
• ISBN 13: 9789004416864
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 161H x 22D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 22 millimeters depth
• Weight: 579 grams

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Synopsis

This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe―including the Accademia del Cimento in Florence; the Royal Society in London; the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris; and the Academia naturae curiosorum in Schweinfurt. The essays detail the multiple backgrounds that prompted seventeenth-century savants―from Italy to England, and from Poland to Portugal―to establish new forms of scientific organizations, in which to institutionalize collaborative research as well as modes of communication with like-minded individuals and associations.

About the Author

Mordechai Feingold is the Van Nuys Page Professor of History at Caltech. He is the editor of the journals Erudition and the republic of Letters (Brill) and History of Universities (Oxford). He is the author of a number of books, including The Mathematicians’ Apprenticeship: Science, Universities and Society in England, 1560-1640 (1984); The Newtonian Moment: Isaac Newton and the Making of Modern Culture (2004); and Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2013), written with Jed Buchwald.
Giulia Giannini, Ph.D. (2008), is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of Milan. She is the author of Verso Oriente. Gianantonio Tadini e la prima prova fisica della rotazione terrestre (Olschki, 2012).