Science in the age of Baroque - ECU Libraries Catalog

Science in the age of Baroque / Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris, editors.

Other author/creator	Gal, Ofer, editor.
Other author/creator	Chen-Morris, Raz editor.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013.
Description	vi, 313 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)	Science--Europe --History --17th century. Science--Europe --Philosophy --17th century.

Series	Archives internationales d'histoire des idées = International archives of the history of ideas, 0066-6610 ; 208 Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 208. ^A494673
Contents	Baroque modes and the production of knowledge / Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris -- pt. 1. Order. What was the relation of baroque culture to the trajectory of early modern natural philosophy? / John A. Schuster -- "Bent and directed towards him": a stylistic analysis of Kircher's Sunflower Clock / Koen Vermeir -- From divine order to human approximation: mathematics in Baroque science / Ofer Gal -- pt. 2. Vision. "The quality of nothing:" Shakespearean mirrors and Kepler's visual economy of science / Raz Chen-Morris -- Agostino Scilla: a baroque painter in pursuit of science / Paula Findlen -- What exactly was Torricelli's "barometer?" / J.B. Shank -- William Harvey and the way of the artisan / Alan Salter -- pt. 3. Excess. Crossing the pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World / John Gascoigne -- The hive and the pendulum: universal metrology and Baroque science / Nicholas Dew -- Chymical philosophy and Boyle's incongruous philosophical chymistery / Victor D. Boantza -- The simulation of nature and the dissimulation of the law on a Baroque stage: Galileo and the Church revisited / Rivka Feldhay -- Name index -- Subject index.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN	9789400748064
ISBN	940074806X

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	Q127 .E85 S26 2013	✔ Available	Place Hold