Science in the age of Baroque
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Gal, Ofer. Chen-Morris, Raz. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2013. |
| Series: | Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ;
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| Online Access: | Available in Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks 2013 English/International. |
Table of Contents:
- Baroque modes and the production of knowledge / Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris
- Part I, Order: What was the relation of Baroque culture to the trajectory of early modern natural philosophy? / John A. Schuster
- "Bent and directed towards him" : a stylistic analysis of Kircher's Sunflower clock / Koen Vermeir
- From divine order to human approximation : mathematics in Baroque science / Ofer Gal
- Part II, Vision: "The quality of nothing" : Shakespearean mirrors and Kepler's visual economy of science / Raz Chen-Morris
- Agostino Scilla, a Baroque painter in pursuit of science / Paula Findlen
- What exactly was Torricelli's "barometer?" / J.B. Shank
- William Harvey and the way of the artisan / Alan Salter
- Part III, Excess: Crossing the pillars of Hercules : Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World / John Gascoigne
- The hive and the pendulum : universal metrology and Baroque science / Nicholas Dew
- Chymical philosophy and Boyle's incongruous philosophical chymistery / Victor D. Boantza
- The simulation of nature and the dissimulation of the law on a Baroque stage : Galileo and the Church revisited / Rivka Feldhay.