Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 36,92 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521572444
An account of European knowledge of the natural world, c.1500-1700.
Author : Hugh Richard Slotten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1108863353
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grouped together in separate sections that represent larger regions: Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, and Latin America. Each of these regional groupings ends with a separate essay reflecting on the analysis in the preceding chapters. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the modern world, contributors analyze the history of science not only in local, national, and regional contexts but also with respect to the circulation of knowledge, tools, methods, people, and artifacts across national borders.
Author : David Marshall Miller
Publisher :
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108420303
A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780521594486
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in the study of nature during the Middle Ages. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of medieval science currently available. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the medieval world, contributors consider scientific learning and advancement in the cultures associated with the Arabic, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew languages. Scientists, historians, and other curious readers will all gain a new appreciation for the study of nature during an era that is often misunderstood.
Author : Gerry Canavan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316733017
The first science fiction course in the American academy was held in the early 1950s. In the sixty years since, science fiction has become a recognized and established literary genre with a significant and growing body of scholarship. The Cambridge History of Science Fiction is a landmark volume as the first authoritative history of the genre. Over forty contributors with diverse and complementary specialties present a history of science fiction across national and genre boundaries, and trace its intellectual and creative roots in the philosophical and fantastic narratives of the ancient past. Science fiction as a literary genre is the central focus of the volume, but fundamental to its story is its non-literary cultural manifestations and influence. Coverage thus includes transmedia manifestations as an integral part of the genre's history, including not only short stories and novels, but also film, art, architecture, music, comics, and interactive media.
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0521572010
A comprehensive and authoritative guide to developments in life and earth sciences since 1800.
Author : Mark A. Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1108591167
From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He describes a time when witches flew through the dark of night to feast on the flesh of unbaptized infants, magicians conversed with angels or struck pacts with demons, and astrologers cast the horoscopes of royalty. Ground-breaking discoveries changed the way that people understood the universe while, in laboratories and coffee houses, philosophers discussed how to reconcile the scientific method with the veneration of God. This engaging, illustrated new study introduces readers to the vibrant history behind the emergence of the modern world.
Author : Alexander Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1108682626
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and mathematics of the Old World in antiquity. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient science currently available. Together, they reveal the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in the study of nature in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and India. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the ancient world, contributors consider scientific, medical and mathematical learning in the cultures associated with the ancient world.
Author : Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 1996-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521567626
This 1997 book views the substantive achievements of the Middle Ages as they relate to early modern science.
Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521572439
The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.
