Baroque science

by Gal, Ofer

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Title Statements

Full title :Baroque science / Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2013
Edition:Paperback edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2013

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 333 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226212982, 022621298X, 9780226923987, 0226923983
oclc:ocn891575411
LC Classification:Q127.E85
Dewey Decimal:509.032

Observation : Science's disappearing observer: baroque optics and the enlightenment of vision -- Per aenigmate: mirrors and lenses as cognitive tools in medieval and renaissance Europe -- The specter of the telescope: radical instrumentalism from Galileo to Hooke -- Mathematization: Nature's drawing: problems and resolutions in the mathematization of motion -- From divine order to human approximation: mathematics in baroque science -- The emergence of baroque mathematical natural philosophy: an archeology of the inverse -- Square law -- Passions: Passions, imagination, and the persona of the new savant.

Subjects

Découvertes scientifiques -- Histoire -… Discoveries in science Discoveries in science -- History -- 17… History mathematics Mathematics -- History -- 17th century Mathématiques -- Histoire -- 17e siècle optics Optics -- History -- 17th century Optique -- Histoire -- 17e siècle Science Science -- History -- 17th century Science -- Philosophy Science -- Philosophy -- 17th century Sciences -- Histoire -- 17e siècle