This collection brings together thirteen articles on early modern
Western science, each representing an important contribution to the
ways in which the scientific revolution is regarded today.
The anthology features classic and prize-winning articles by
renowned scholars, including ""Totius in verba": Rhetoric and
Authority in the Early Royal Society," by Peter Dear; "The
Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of
the Copernican Theory," by Robert S. Westman; "Laboratory Design
and the Aim of Science," by Owen Hannaway; "Geography as
Self-Definition in Early Modern England," by Lesley B. Cormack;
"What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution?"
by Keith Hutchison; and "Galileo, Motion, and Essences," by
Margaret J. Osler.
Also, "Scientific Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope," by Richard
S. Westfall; "The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century," by Albert
Van Helden; "Descartes on Refraction," by Bruce S. Eastwood; "Early
Seventeenth-Century Atomism," by Christoph Meinel; "Robert Boyle
and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century," by Thomas S.
Kuhn; "Newton's Alchemy and His Theory of Matter," by B. J. T.
Dobbs; "The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England," by
Steven Shapin; and "Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy," by
Londa Scheibinger.
This carefully structured collection will help readers approach
complex questions--involving argument and experiment, audience and
agency, authority and institutions.
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