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Revolutionising The Sciences : European Knowledge And Its Ambitions, 1500-1700

  • Revolutionising The Sciences : European Knowledge And Its Ambitions, 1500-1700

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    Peter Dear

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    Book, 2nd ed, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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    The second edition of this successful text has been updated and expanded in the light of recent scholarship, offering greater treatment of key topics such as alchemy and medicine.This book covers an increasingly popular subject among both history students and the general public. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q127.E8 D433 2009  NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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Worlds Before Adam : The Reconstruction Of Geohistory In The Age Of Reform

  • Worlds Before Adam : The Reconstruction Of Geohistory In The Age Of Reform

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    Martin J.S. Rudwick

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    Book, University of Chicago Press, 2008

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    Featuring an international cast of colorful characters, with Georges Cuvier and Charles Lyell playing major roles and Darwin appearing as a young geologist, Worlds Before Adam is a worthy successor to Rudwick?s magisterial first volume. Completing the highly readable narrative of one of the most momentous changes in human understanding of our place in the natural world, Worlds Before Adam is a capstone to the career of one of the world?s leading historians of science. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QE13.E85 R83 2008  AVAILABLE

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Bursting The Limits Of Time : The Reconstruction Of Geohistory In The Age Of Revolution

  • Bursting The Limits Of Time : The Reconstruction Of Geohistory In The Age Of Revolution

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    Martin J.S. Rudwick

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    Book, University of Chicago Press, 2005

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    Highlighting a discovery that radically altered existing perceptions of a human’s place in the universe as much as the theories of Copernicus, Darwin, and Freud did, Bursting the Limits of Time is a herculean effort by one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of geology and paleontology to sketch this historicization of the natural world in the age of revolution. He explores who was responsible for the discovery of the earth’s history, refutes the concept of a rift between science and religion in dating the earth, and details how the study of the history of the earth helped define a new branch of science called geology. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q127.E8 R83 2005  AVAILABLE

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Profiles Of Revolutionaries In Atlantic History, 1700-1850

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The Emergence Of A Scientific Culture : Science And The Shaping Of Modernity, 1210-1685

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Science And Technology In Medieval European Life

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Descartes : The Life And Times Of A Genius

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The Science Of Describing : Natural History In Renaissance Europe

  • The Science Of Describing : Natural History In Renaissance Europe

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    Brian W. Ogilvie

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    Book, University of Chicago Press, 2006

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    Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, naturalists focused on understanding ancient and medieval descriptions of the natural world, but by the mid-sixteenth century naturalists turned toward distinguishing and cataloguing new plant and animal species. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q127.E8 O45 2006  AVAILABLE

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Men, Women, And The Birthing Of Modern Science

  • Men, Women, And The Birthing Of Modern Science

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    edited by Judith P. Zinsser

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    Book, Northern Illinois University Press, 2005

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    Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science traces the division of natural philosophy into the modern categories of philosophy and science and the gradual marginalization of women as intellectuals. Here, ten scholars of gender, women?s history, and the history of philosophy and science write on these twin themes, allowing the opportunity for cross-cultural analysis and yielding insights into the history of both science and women. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q130 .M46 2005  AVAILABLE

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A World On Fire : A Heretic, An Aristocrat, And The Race To Discover Oxygen

  • A World On Fire : A Heretic, An Aristocrat, And The Race To Discover Oxygen

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    Joe Jackson

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    Book, Viking, 2005

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    In the final decades of the 1700s, as the threat of revolution began to dim the radiance of the Enlightenment, two brilliant scientists simultaneously achieved a breakthrough that would alter the course of human thought and history: they discovered oxygen. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QD181.O1 J33 2005  AVAILABLE

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The Newtonian Moment : Isaac Newton And The Making Of Modern Culture

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The Cambridge Companion To Newton

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Revolutionizing The Sciences : European Knowledge And Its Ambitions, 1500-1700

  • Revolutionizing The Sciences : European Knowledge And Its Ambitions, 1500-1700

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    Peter Dear

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    Book, Princeton University Press, 2001

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    From Copernicus, who put the earth in orbit around the sun, to Isaac Newton, who gave the world universal gravitation, the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries transformed the way that Europeans understood their world. Dear questions triumphal ideas of scientific progress, unravels the connections between scientific knowledge and power over nature, and distinguishes between the scientific renaissance that characterized the sixteenth century and the more fundamental revolution that occurred in the seventeenth. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q127.E8 D433 2001  AVAILABLE

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The Scientific Revolution : An Encyclopedia

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Encyclopedia Of The Scientific Revolution : From Copernicus To Newton

  • Encyclopedia Of The Scientific Revolution : From Copernicus To Newton

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    editor, Wilbur Applebaum

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    Book, Garland Pub, 2000

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    A close examination of the dawn of the modern age With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the broad sweep of individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in this most influential age-when the modern perception of nature and of the universe and our place in it is said to have emerged. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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