Revolution and continuity : essays in the history and philosophy of early modern science / edited by Peter Barker and Roger Ariew
1991, First Edition. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430652
ISBN: 081320738X
Physical description; v, 222 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index. Contents; Societies, circles, academies, and organizations : a historiographic essay on seventeenth-century science / David Lux -- Tradition versus novelty : universities and scientific societies in the early modern period / Mordechai Feingold -- Physick and natural history in seventeenth-century England / Harold Cook -- A new science of geology in the seventeenth-century? / Roger Ariew -- Innovation and continuity in the history of astronomy : the case of the rotating moon / Alan Gabbey -- The heavens and earth : Bellarmine and Galileo / Joseph Pitt -- The blasphemy of Alfonso X : history or myth? / Bernard R. Goldstein -- Cavalieri's indivisibles and Euclid's canons / François De Gandt -- Descartes' Geometry and the classical tradition / Emily Grosholz. Subjects; 1600-1699. Science History. Science History 17th century. Science Philosophy History. Continuity. Philosophy history. Science.
Price: €125.00