Baroque science
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'...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago, Ill. u.a.
Univ. of Chicago Press
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 313 - 330 |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 333 S. Ill., graph. Darst. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780226923987 978-0-226-92398-7 0226923983 0-226-92398-3 |