English Scientific Virtuosi in the 16th and 17th Centuries
Author: Barbara J. Shapiro
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 142
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Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science
Author: Richard Yeo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-03-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 022610673X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science, Richard Yeo interprets a relatively unexplored set of primary archival sources: the notes and notebooks of some of the leading figures of the Scientific Revolution. Notebooks were important to several key members of the Royal Society of London, including Robert Boyle, John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, John Locke, and others, who drew on Renaissance humanist techniques of excerpting from texts to build storehouses of proverbs, maxims, quotations, and other material in personal notebooks, or commonplace books. Yeo shows that these men appreciated the value of their own notes both as powerful tools for personal recollection, and, following Francis Bacon, as a system of precise record keeping from which they could retrieve large quantities of detailed information for collaboration. The virtuosi of the seventeenth century were also able to reach beyond Bacon and the humanists, drawing inspiration from the ancient Hippocratic medical tradition and its emphasis on the gradual accumulation of information over time. By reflecting on the interaction of memory, notebooks, and other records, Yeo argues, the English virtuosi shaped an ethos of long-term empirical scientific inquiry.
Universal Languages and Scientific Taxonomy in the Seventeenth Century
Author: M. M. Slaughter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1982-09-23
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0521244773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines highly regarded proposals during the seventeenth century for an artificial language intended to replace Latin as the international medium of communication.
Reading the Skies
Author: Vladimir Jankovic
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001-04-19
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780226392158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the time of Aristotle until the late eighteenth century, meteorology meant the study of "meteors"—spectacular objects in the skies beneath the moon, which included everything from shooting stars to hailstorms. In Reading the Skies, Vladimir Jankovic traces the history of this meteorological tradition in Enlightenment Britain, examining its scientific and cultural significance. Jankovic interweaves classical traditions, folk/popular beliefs and practices, and the increasingly quantitative approaches of urban university men to understanding the wonders of the skies. He places special emphasis on the role that detailed meteorological observations played in natural history and chorography, or local geography; in religious and political debates; and in agriculture. Drawing on a number of archival sources, including correspondence and weather diaries, as well as contemporary pamphlets, tracts, and other printed sources reporting prodigious phenomena in the skies, this book will interest historians of science, Britain, and the environment.
Science, Politics and Universities in Europe, 1600-1800
Author: John Gascoigne
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1040234119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutional dynamics of the university. Much of the work is devoted to one key university- that of Cambridge- and examines the major issues of the institutional setting of Newton’s work, the religious and political circumstances that favoured its dissemination, and the way in which it was dealt with in the curriculum. But the author also seeks to place the problem of the role of science in the early modern university in a larger, European context. To do so, he includes a close prosopographical analysis of the scientific community from the mid-15th TO the end of the 18th century, and discusses the complex relations between the universities and the Enlightenment.
Popular Medicine in Seventeenth-century England
Author: Doreen Evenden
Publisher: Popular Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780879724368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis monograph, the first detailed study of seventeenth-century popular medicine, depicts the major role which lay or popular medical practitioners played in the provision of seventeenth-century health care in England.
Renaissance Humanism, Volume 3
Author: Albert Rabil, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 1512805777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727
Author: K. Gevirtz
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-03-06
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1137386762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
The Furthest Goal
Author: Beatrice Bodart-Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1136637834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important study brings together some of the best current research on Kaempfer (author of the History of Japan, also published by Curzon) for the first time and includes a close analysis of 6 key topics from the writing of the History to an interpretation of the interpreter himself.
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 1312
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