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The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century - Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
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The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century - Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)
Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 19
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One of the hallmarks of the modern world has been the stunning rise
of the natural sciences. The exponential expansion of scientific
knowledge and the accompanying technology that so impact on our
daily lives are truly remarkable. But what is often taken for
granted is the enviable epistemic-credit rating of scientific
knowledge: science is authoritative, science inspires confidence,
science is right. Yet it has not always been so. In the seventeenth
century the situation was markedly different: competing sources of
authority, shifting disciplinary boundaries, emerging modes of
experimental practice and methodological reflection were some of
the constituents in a quite different melange in which knowledge of
nature was by no means p- eminent. It was the desire to probe the
underlying causes of the shift from the early modern
'nature-knowledge' to modern science that was one of the stimuli
for the 'Origins of Modernity: Early Modern Thought 1543-1789'
conference held in Sydney in July 2002. How and why did modern
science emerge from its early modern roots to the dominant position
which it enjoys in today's post-modern world? Under the auspices of
the International Society for Intellectual History, The University
of New South Wales and The University of Sydney, a group of
historians and philosophers of science gathered to discuss this
issue. However, it soon became clear that a prior question needed
to be settled first: the question as to the precise nature of the
quest for knowledge of the natural realm in the seventeenth
century."
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