{"product_id":"renaissance-and-revolution-humanists-scholars-craftsmen-and-natural-philosophers-in-early-modern-europe-paperback-9780521627542","title":"Renaissance and Revolution; Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe (Paperback) 9780521627542","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRenaissance and Revolution\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHumanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of fifteen essays on some of the problems associated with the Scientific Revolution.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJ. V. Field (Edited by), Frank A. J. L. James (Edited by), A. Rupert Hall (Afterword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521627542, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 2 October 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages, 28 b\/w illus.  2 tables\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.5 x 1.9 cm, 0.642 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An excellent collection of essays on the history of science, 1400-1750...It especially shows how the history of science is closely related to the history of culture. Indispensable for covering previously marginalized but important material.\"   Journal of Religious Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRenaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays which opens up alternative perspectives on some of the problems 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 in various walks of life from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the so-called 'mechanical philosophy' in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by proponents of 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrontispiece\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e List of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James\u003cbr\u003e 1. Greek science in the sixteenth-century Renaissance Vivian Nutton\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'With the rules of life and an enema': Leonardo Fioravanti's medical primitivism William Eamon\u003cbr\u003e 3. The cutting edge of a revolution? Medicine and natural history near the shores of the North Sea Harold J. Cook\u003cbr\u003e 4. Science and technology during the Scientific Revolution: an empirical approach Richard S. Westfall\u003cbr\u003e 5. Mathematics and the craft of painting: Piero della Francesca and perspective J. V. Field\u003cbr\u003e 6. Johannes Hevelius and the visual language of astronomy Mary G. Winkler and Albert van Helden\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mathematical sciences and military technology: the Ordnance Office in the reign of Charles II Frances Willmoth\u003cbr\u003e 8. Between ars and philosophia naturalis: reflections on the historiography of early modern mechanics Alan Gabbey\u003cbr\u003e 9. The conscience of Robert Boyle: functionalism, 'dysfunctionalism' and the task of historical understanding Michael Hunter\u003cbr\u003e 10. Clandestine Stoic concepts in mechanical philosophy: the problem of electrical attraction Gad Freudenthal\u003cbr\u003e 11. Alchemy in the Newtonian circle: personal acquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newton's alchemy Karin Figala and Ulrich Petzold\u003cbr\u003e 12. Newton's subtle matter: the Opticks queries and the mechanical philosophy R. W. Home\u003cbr\u003e 13. Huygens's reaction to Newton's gravitational theory Roberto de A. Martins\u003cbr\u003e 14. The reception of Newton's Opticks in Italy Paolo Casini\u003cbr\u003e 15. Marsigli, Benedict XIV and the Bolognese Institute of Sciences Giorgio Dragoni\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: retrospection on the Scientific Revolution A. Rupert Hall\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005671199000,"sku":"9780521627542","price":36.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521627542i_cdebf7e1-ceb3-467c-8204-d6aba82a3d02.jpg?v=1691379209","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/renaissance-and-revolution-humanists-scholars-craftsmen-and-natural-philosophers-in-early-modern-europe-paperback-9780521627542","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}