Renaissance and Revolution - Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe (Paperback, Revised)

Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays on some of the problems presently seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the so-called 'mechanical philosophy' in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Leonardo Fioravanti, Jan Swammerdam, Piero della Francesca, Johannes Hevelius, Jonas Moore, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, Francesco Algarotti and Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli. There is an introduction by the editors and an afterword by A. Rupert Hall. The authorship is international, including scholars with established reputations as historians of science.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 1997
First published:	1993
Editors:	J.V. Field • Frank A.J.L. James
Afterword by:	A.Rupert Hall
Dimensions:	248 x 168 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	308
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-62754-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Promotions
LSN:	0-521-62754-0
Barcode:	9780521627542

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