Synopses & Reviews
New to the Problems in European Civilization series, this volume offers secondary-source documents that debate such topics as Was There a Scientific Revolution? and Did Women Have a Scientific Revolution? through works by European Intellectual historians. The text is suitable for courses in European Intellectual history, as well as courses focused exclusively on the Scientific Revolution and the history of science. Pedagogical tools include chapter introductions, timelines, illustrations, maps, and suggested readings.
Synopsis
New to the Problems in European Civilization series, this volume offers secondary-source documents that debate such topics as Was There a Scientific Revolution? and Did Women Have a Scientific Revolution? through works by European Intellectual historians. The text is suitable for courses in European Intellectual history, as well as courses focused exclusively on the Scientific Revolution and the history of science. Pedagogical tools include chapter introductions, timelines, illustrations, maps, and suggested readings.
Table of Contents
I. The Master Narrative Edwin Arthur Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, 1924 A. Rupert Hall, The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800: The Formation of the Modern Scientific Attitude, 1954 Alexandre Koyre, From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe, 1957 Richard S. Westfall, The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics, 1971 II. Science and Religion S. F. Mason, The Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation Barbara Shapiro, Latitudinarianism and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, 1968 Robert S. Westman, The Copernicans and the Churches, 1986 Margaret J. Osler, Baptizing Epicurean Atomism: Pierre Gassendi on the Immortality of the Soul, 1985 III. Science and Society Edgar Zilsel, The Origins of William Gilber's Scientific Method, 1941 Thomas S. Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the History of Western Thought, 1957 Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the Experimental Life, 1985 Mario Biagioli, Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism, 1993 IV. Outside the Tradition William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 1994 Paula Findlen, Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy, 1994 Sara Schechner Genuth, Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, 1997 V. Did Women Have a Scientific Revolution? Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution, 1980 Lisa T. Sarasohn, A Science Turned Upside Down: Feminism and the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish, 1984 Londa Schiebinger, The Mind Has No Sex? Women and the Origins of Modern Science, 1989 VI. Was There a Scientific Revolution? I. Bernard Cohen, Revolution in Science, 1985 Roy Porter, The Scientific Revolution: A Spoke in the Wheel?, 1986 Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, Newton as Final Cause and First Mover, 1994 Peter Dear, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy: Toward a Heuristic Narrative for the Scientific Revolution, 1998