Renaissance and Revolution by J V Field

Renaissance and Revolution by J V Field

Renaissance and Revolution is a collection of fifteen essays which opens up alternative perspectives on some of the problems seen to be associated with the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The topics treated include the dissemination of Greek science, medical empiricism, natural history, the relations of scholars and craftsmen in various walks of life from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the so-called 'mechanical philosophy' in France and England, the work of Isaac Newton, and the difficulties encountered by proponents of Newtonianism in Italy in the early eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Leonardo Fioravanti, Jan Swammerdam, Piero Della Francesca, Johannes Hevelius, Jonas Moore, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Christiaan Huygens, Francesco Algarotti, and Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli. There is an introduction by the editors and an afterword by A. Rupert Hall.

"An excellent collection of essays on the history of science, 1400-1750..It especially shows how the history of science is closely related to the history of culture. Indispensable for covering previously marginalized but important material." Journal of Religious Studies

J. V. Field is honorary visiting research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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ISBN 13	9780521627542
ISBN 10	0521627540
Title	Renaissance and Revolution
Author	J V Field
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	1997-10-02
Number of pages	308
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