Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period, Fischer

Автор: Mordechai Feingold; Victor Navarro-Brotons
Название: Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
ISBN: 9048170044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048170043
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 27251.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on "Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period" held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain. The conference was part of the "Five Centuries of the Life of the University of Valencia" (Cinc Segles) celebrations, and from the outset we had the generous support of the "Patronato" (Foundation) overseeing the events. In recent decades, as a result of a renewed attention to the institutional, political, social, and cultural context of scienti?c activity, we have witnessed a reappraisal of the role of the universities in the construction and development of early modern science. In essence, the following conclusions have been reached: (1) the attitudes regarding scienti?c progress or novelty differed from country to country and follow differenttrajectoriesinthecourseoftheearlymodernperiod;(2)institutionsofhigher learning were the main centers of education for most scientists; (3) although the universities were sometimes slow to assimilate new scienti?c knowledge, when they didsoithelpednotonlytoremovethesuspicionthatthenewsciencewasintellectually subversivebutalsotomakesciencearespectableandevenprestigiousactivity;(4)the universities gave the scienti?c movement considerable material support in the form of research facilities such as anatomical theaters, botanical gardens, and expensive instruments; (5) the universities provided professional employment and a means of support to many scientists; and (6) although the relations among the universities and the academies or scienti?c societies were sometimes antagonistic, the two types of institutionsoftenworkedtogetherinharmony, performingcomplementaryratherthan competing functions; moreover, individuals moved from one institution to another, as did knowledge, methods, and scienti?c practices.

Автор: Freguglia
Название: The Early Period of the Calculus of Variations
ISBN: 3319389440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319389448
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 13275.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: This monograph explores the early development of the calculus of variations in continental Europe during the Eighteenth Century by illustrating the mathematics of its founders. Closely following the original papers and correspondences of Euler, Lagrange, the Bernoullis, and others, the reader is immersed in the challenge of theory building. We see what the founders were doing, the difficulties they faced, the mistakes they made, and their triumphs. The authors guide the reader through these works with instructive commentaries and complements to the original proofs, as well as offering a modern perspective where useful. The authors begin in 1697 with Johann Bernoulli’s work on the brachystochrone problem and the events leading up to it, marking the dawn of the calculus of variations. From there, they cover key advances in the theory up to the development of Lagrange’s ?-calculus, including: • The isoperimetrical problems• Shortest lines and geodesics• Euler’s Methodus Inveniendi and the two AdditamentaFinally, the authors give the readers a sense of how vast the calculus of variations has become in centuries hence, providing some idea of what lies outside the scope of the book as well as the current state of affairs in the field. This book will be of interest to anyone studying the calculus of variations who wants a deeper intuition for the techniques and ideas that are used, as well as historians of science and mathematics interested in the development and evolution of modern calculus and analysis.

Автор: Muratori
Название: Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy
ISBN: 3319326023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319326023
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 12577.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: When does Renaissance philosophy end, and Early Modern philosophy begin? Do Renaissance philosophers have something in common, which distinguishes them from Early Modern philosophers? And ultimately, what defines the modernity of the Early Modern period, and what role did the Renaissance play in shaping it? The answers to these questions are not just chronological. This book challenges traditional constructions of these periods, which partly reflect the prejudice that the Renaissance was a literary and artistic phenomenon, rather than a philosophical phase.The essays in this book investigate how the legacy of Renaissance philosophers persisted in the following centuries through the direct encounters of subsequent generations with Renaissance philosophical texts. This volume treats Early Modern philosophers as joining their predecessors as ‘conversation partners’: the ‘conversations’ in this book feature, among others, Girolamo Cardano and Henry More, Thomas Hobbes and Lorenzo Valla, Bernardino Telesio and Francis Bacon, Ren? Descartes and Tommaso Campanella, Giulio Cesare Vanini and the anonymous Theophrastus redivivus.

Автор: Patrick Bonner
Название: Change and Continuity in Early Modern Cosmology
ISBN: 9400734379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400734371
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 18866.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Seen as a flash point of the Scientific Revolution, early modern astronomy witnessed an explosion of views about the function and structure of the world. This study explores these theories in a wide variety of settings, and challenges our view of modern science as the straightforward successor of Aristotelian natural philosophy.

Автор: Tom Sorell; G.A. Rogers; Jill Kraye
Название: Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy
ISBN: 9400730802 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400730809
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 20962.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Pre-modern and early modern conceptions of Scientia differ systematically from one another. This book offers a variety of glimpses of this difference by exploring the works of individual philosophers as well as philosophical movements and groupings.

Автор: Nachtomy Ohad, Smith Justin E. H.
Название: The Life Sciences in Early Modern Philosophy
ISBN: 0199987319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199987313
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 10930.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: This volume explores the intersection between early modern philosophy and the life sciences by presenting the contributions of important but often neglected figures such as Cudworth, Grew, Glisson, Hieronymus Fabricius, Stahl, Gallego, Hartsoeker, and More, as well as familiar figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, and Kant.

Автор: Huff
Название: The Rise of Early Modern Science
ISBN: 1107571073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107571075
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
Рейтинг:
Цена: 5069.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: Comparing the effects of cultural and institutional structures on the rise of modern science in the West and East, this revised, updated third edition offers a unique perspective of the history of scientific thought. It will be an indispensable resource for those interested in the history of science and the early modern world.

Автор: Howard Marchitello; Evelyn Tribble
Название: The Palgrave Handbook of Early Modern Literature and Science
ISBN: 1137467789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137467782
Издательство: Springer
Рейтинг:
Цена: 30745.00 р.
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.

Описание: It does not cast the literary and the scientific as distinct, but rather as productively in-distinct cultural practices: for the two dozen new essays collected here, the presiding concern is no longer to ask how literary writers react to scientific writers, but rather to study how literary and scientific practices are imbricated.