Word Of God & The Languages Of Man - Interpreting Nature In Early Modern Science And Medicine Volume I, Ficino To Descartes (Paperback, New)

This remarkably ambitious work relates changes in scientific and medical thought during the Scientific Revolution (circa 1500-1700) to the emergence of new principles and practices for interpreting language, texts, and nature. An invaluable history of ideas about the nature of language during this period, The Word of God and the Languages of Man also explores the wider cultural origins and impact of these ideas. Its broad and deeply complex picture of a profound sociocultural and intellectual transformation will alter our definition of the scientific revolution. James J. Bono shows how the new interpretive principles and scientific practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries evolved in response to new views of the relationship between the "Word of God" and the "Languages of Man" fostered by Renaissance Humanism, Neoplatonism, magic, and both the reformed and radical branches of Protestantism. He traces the cultural consequences of these ideas in the thought and work of major and minor actors in the scientific revolution-from Ficino and Paracelsus to Francis Bacon and Descartes. By considering these natural philosophers in light of their own intellectual, religious, philosophical, cultural, linguistic, and especially narrative frameworks, Bono suggests a new way of viewing the sociocultural dynamics of scientific change in the premodern period-and ultimately, a new way of understanding the nature and history of scientific thought. The narrative configuration he proposes provides a powerful alternative to the longstanding "revolutionary" metaphor of the history of the scientific revolution.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2001
First published:	September 1995
Authors:	James J. Bono
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	324
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-14794-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
LSN:	0-299-14794-0
Barcode:	9780299147945

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