Title & Author:

Renaissance and revolution : humanists, scholars, craftsmen, and natural philosophers in early modern Europe / edited and introduced by J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Description:

xv, 291 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Spine title: Renaissance & revolution.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-272) and index.
Greek science in the sixteenth-century Renaissance / Vivian Nutton -- 'With the rules of life and an enema' : Leonardo Fioravanti's medical primitivism / William Eamon -- Cutting edge of a revolution? : medicine and natural history near the shores of the North Sea / Harold J. Cook -- Science and technology during the Scientific Revolution : an empirical approach / Richard S. Westfall -- Mathematics and the craft of painting : Piero della Francesa and perspective / J.V. Field -- Johannes Hevelius and the visual language of astronomy / Mary G. Winkler and Albert Van Helden -- Mathematical sciences and military technology : the Ordnance Office in the reign of Charles II / Frances Willmoth -- Between ars and philosophia naturalis: reflections on the historiography of early modern mechanics / Alan Gabbey -- Conscience of Robert Boyle : functionalism, 'dysfunctionalism' and the task of historical understanding / Michael Hunter -- Clandestine Stoic concepts in mechanical philosophy : the problem of electrical attraction / Gad Freudenthal -- Alchemy in the Newtonian circle : personal acquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newton's alchemy / Karen Figala and Ulrich Petzold -- Newton's subtle matter : the Opticks queries and the mechanical philosophy / R.W. Home -- Huygens's reaction to Newton's gravitational theory / Roberto De A. Martins -- Reception of Newton's Opticks in Italy / Paolo Casini -- Marsigli, Benedict XIV and the Bolognese Institute of Sciences / Giorgio Dragoni.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays on some of the problems presently seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the so-called 'mechanical philosophy' in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Leonardo Fioravanti, Jan Swammerdam, Piero della Francesca, Johannes Hevelius, Jonas Moore, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, Francesco Algarotti and Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli. There is an introduction by the editors and an afterword by A. Rupert Hall. The authorship is international, including scholars with established reputations as historians of science.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0521434270 (hardback)
9780521434270 (hardback)

Subject:

Science, Renaissance.
Science Europe History 18th century.
Technology Europe History 18th century.
Science history
Technology history
Sciences de la Renaissance.
Sciences Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Technologie Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Intellectual life.
Science.
Technology.
Filosofie.
Wetenschapsdynamica.
Philosophy.
Philosophie de la nature Renaissance.
Philosophie de la nature 17e siècle.
Philosophie de la nature 18e siècle.
Sciences Histoire.
Europe Intellectual life 18th century.
Europe Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle.
Europe.
Science History

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Field, Judith Veronica.
James, Frank A. J. L., 1955-
Renaissance & revolution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 106358
Call No.: ID Q125.2.R45; ID:94-B2479
Status: Available