Baroque Science

Autor: Raz Chen-Morris, Ofer Gal

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In "Baroque Science", Ofer Gal and Raz D. Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the stu...

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Autor

Raz Chen-Morris, Ofer Gal

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Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

352

EAN

9780226923987

ISBN

0226923983

Enbook ID

04550712

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

668

Dimensiuni

168 x 234 x 27

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In "Baroque Science", Ofer Gal and Raz D. Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the study of early modern science. Instead of the triumph of reason and rationality and the celebration of the discoveries and breakthroughs of the period, they examine science in the context of the baroque, analyzing the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success. Gal and Chen-Morris show how scientists during the seventeenth century turned away from the trust in the acquisition of knowledge through the senses toward a growing reliance on the mediation of artificial instruments, such as lenses and mirrors for observation and mechanical and pneumatic devices for experimentation. Likewise, the mathematical techniques and procedures that allowed the success of mathematical natural philosophy turned increasingly obscure and artificial, and in place of divine harmonies they revealed an assemblage of isolated, contingent laws and constants. In its attempts to enforce order in the face of threatening chaos, blur the boundaries of the natural and the artificial, and mobilize passions in the service of objective knowledge, Gal and Chen-Morris reveal, the New Science is a baroque phenomenon.

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