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Early Modern Science

Series The Cambridge History of Science, Volume
3

Edited by Katharine
Park and Lorraine
Daston

Publication Date 2006

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521572446

Hardback ISBN-10 0521572444

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521572446

Overview

A comprehensive account of knowledge of the natural world in Europe, ca.
1500-1700. Often referred to as the Scientific Revolution, this period saw major
transformations in fields as diverse as anatomy and astronomy, natural history
and mathematics. Articles by leading specialists describe in clear, accessible
prose supplemented by extensive bibliographies, how new ideas, discoveries, and
institutions shaped the ways in which nature came to be studied, understood, and
used. Part I frames the study of 'The New Nature' in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Part II surveys the 'Personae and Sites of Natural
Knowledge'. Part III treats the study of nature by discipline, following the
classification of the sciences current in early modern Europe. Part IV takes up
the implications of the new natural knowledge for religion, literature, art,
gender, and European identity.

For more details of the print
book, and how to buy it online, please see Early Modern Science in the Cambridge
University Press online catalogue.

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Frontmatter

Introduction:
The Age of the New by Katharine
Park and Lorraine
Daston

The New
Nature

Personae
and Sites of Natural Knowledge

Dividing
the Study of Nature

Cultural
Meanings of Natural Knowledge

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