The Classical Review
The Classical Review

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Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 526

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This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.

Rethinking the Scientific Revolution
Rethinking the Scientific Revolution

Author: Margaret J. Osler

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-03-13

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780521667906

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This book challenges the traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution, probably the single most important unifying concept in the history of science. Usually referring to the period from Copernicus to Newton (roughly 1500 to 1700), the Scientific Revolution is considered to be the central episode in the history of science, the historical moment at which that unique way of looking at the world that we call 'modern science' and its attendant institutions emerged. It has been taken as the terminus a quo of all that followed. Starting with a dialogue between Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Richard S. Westfall, whose understanding of the Scientific Revolution differed in important ways, the papers in this volume reconsider canonical figures, their areas of study, and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during this seminal period of European intellectual history.

Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance
Geography, Cartography and Nautical Science in the Renaissance

Author: W.G.L. Randles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1000553175

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The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. The first studies deal specifically with the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. In the following pieces Dr Randles looks at the advances in Portuguese navigation and cartography that helped sailors overcome the obstacles to the circumnavigation of Africa and the crossing of the Atlantic, and at the impact of the Discoveries on European culture and science. Other articles are concerned with Portuguese naval artillery, and with attempts to classify the indigenous societies of the newly-discovered lands and to map the interior of Africa.

Erasmus and Philosophy. On the Concept of Philosophy Developed by Erasmus of Rotterdam
Erasmus and Philosophy. On the Concept of Philosophy Developed by Erasmus of Rotterdam

Author: Juliusz Domański

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-09-26

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 900470339X

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Erasmus of Rotterdam is not typically associated with the discipline of philosophy. Yet, he would himself employ the category of philosophia Christi in the sense of authentic Christianity which had not been contaminated by the abstractness and pedanticism of paganized mediaeval scholasticism. Does this reveal a contrarian attitude to philosophy in general or rather a special understanding of what a “true’ philosophy as a way of life should be? This study attempts to answer this question by assembling and closely studying from Erasmus’ extensive oeuvre his scant and occasional remarks on the concept of philosophy.