Science in the age of Baroque
This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of the period. The collected essays explore themes common to the new practices of knowledge production and the rapidly changing culture surround...
| Other Authors: | Gal, Ofer., Chen-Morris, Raz., SpringerLink (Online Service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2013.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (vi, 313 pages) |
| Series: |
Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ;
v. 208. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- 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
- 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 Chymistry /
- Victor D. Boantza
- The Simulation of Nature and the Dissimulation of the Law on a Baroque Stage: Galileo and the Church Revisited /
- Rivka Feldhay.