How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough

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How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 832 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9789089642394
  • DDC分類 509

Full Description

Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket — so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Floris Cohen now comes up with precisely such a replacement. Key to his path-breaking analysis-cum-narrative is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct yet narrowly interconnected, revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five to thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world. It also enables him to explain how half-way into the 17th century a vast crisis of legitimacy could arise and, in the end, be overcome. Building forth on his earlier The Scientific Revolution. A Historiographical Inquiry (1994), his new book takes the latest researches duly into account, while connecting these in highly innovative ways. It is meant throughout as a constructive effort to break up all-too-deeply frozen patterns of thinking about the history of science.

Contents

web_ready - 1 web_ready - 2 Table of contents - 8 Preface - 14 Prologue - 16 Part I. Nature-Knowledge in Traditional Society - 42 I. Greek foundations, Chinese contrasts - 44 II. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted: the islamic world - 94 III. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted in part: medieval Europe - 118 IV. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted, and more: renaissance Europe - 140 Part II. Three revolutionary transformations - 198 V. The first transformation: realist-mathematical science - 200 VI. The second transformation: a kinetic-corpuscularian philosophy of nature - 262 VII. The third transformation: to find facts through experiment - 286 VIII. Concurrence explained - 312 IX. Prospects around 1640 - 322 Part III. Dynamics of the Revolution - 330 X. Achievements and limitations of realist-mathematical science - 332 XI. Achievements and limitations of kinetic corpuscularianism - 414 XII. Legitimacy in the balance - 444 XIII. Achievements and limitations of fact-finding experimentalism - 486 XIV. Nature-knowledge decompartmentalized - 550 XV. The fourth transformation: corpuscular motion geometrized - 562 XVI. The fifth transformation: the baconian brew - 590 XVII. Legitimacy of a new kind - 606 XVIII. Nature-knowledge by 1684: the achievement so far - 640 XIX. The sixth transformation: the newtonian synthesis - 678 Epilogue - 760 Notes on literature used - 781 Endnotes - 784 Name index - 808 Subject index - 820