Описание: This book tells the comprehensive history of cosmography from the 15th Century Age of Discovery onward. During this time, cosmography—a science that combined geography and astronomy to inform us about our place in the universe—was deeply tied to ongoing developments in politics, exploration, culture, and technology. The book offers in-depth historical context over nearly four centuries, focusing in particular on the often neglected role that Portugal and Spain played in the development of cosmography. It details the great activity emerging from the Iberian and Italic peninsulas, including numerous voyagers of exploration, a clear commercial intention, and advancements in map-making techniques. In doing so, it provides a unique perspective on the “Longitude problem” not available in most other literature on the topic. Rigorously researched and sweeping in scope, this book will serve as an invaluable source for historians and readers interested in the history of science, of astronomy, and of exploration from a southern European perspective.
Автор: Lipking Lawrence Название: What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution ISBN: 080145297X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801452970 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 5834.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of science and in shaping stories about eye-opening discoveries in cosmology, natural history, engineering, and the life sciences.
When Galileo saw the face of the Moon and the moons of Jupiter, Lipking writes, he had to picture a cosmos that could account for them. Kepler thought his geometry could open a window into the mind of God. Francis Bacon's natural history envisioned an order of things that would replace the illusions of language with solid evidence and transform notions of life and death. Descartes designed a hypothetical "Book of Nature" to explain how everything in the universe was constructed. Thomas Browne reconceived the boundaries of truth and error. Robert Hooke, like Leonardo, was both researcher and artist; his schemes illuminate the microscopic and the macrocosmic. And when Isaac Newton imagined nature as a coherent and comprehensive mathematical system, he redefined the goals of science and the meaning of genius.
What Galileo Saw bridges the divide between science and art; it brings together Galileo and Milton, Bacon and Shakespeare. Lipking enters the minds and the workshops where the Scientific Revolution was fashioned, drawing on art, literature, and the history of science to reimagine how perceptions about the world and human life could change so drastically, and change forever.
Автор: Teich Mikulas Название: The Scientific Revolution Revisited ISBN: 1783741228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783741229 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5141.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Teich Mikulas Название: The Scientific Revolution Revisited ISBN: 1783741236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783741236 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The chaos of the French Revolution was quickly followed by the somewhat less chaotic rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. For roughly 25 years, France saw five constitutions; countless warring political factions; governments that included a monarchy, a republic, and an empire; and almost constant warfare with most of Europe. At the same time, the French fought from within, sending thousands of its own people to the guillotine.
Any yet, there were perhaps more advancements during that time than any other in world history. Two brothers launched hot air balloons, inaugurating the age of flight, over a hundred years before Orville and Wilbur Wright. Modern chemistry was developed, eclipsing the strange and superstitious field of alchemy which proceeded it. The metric system was created. Napoleon Bonaparte's army explored Egypt for three years, and a French man would later translate the mysterious hieroglyphs. This book details these French advancements and more, including the first photograph, the first automobile, and developing the process that spawned computer programming.
Автор: Innocenzi, Plinio Название: Innovators behind Leonardo ISBN: 3319904485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319904481 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This engaging book places Leonardo da Vinci`s scientific achievements within the wider context of the rapid development that occurred during the Renaissance.
Автор: Applebaum, Wilbur Название: Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution ISBN: 0815315031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815315032 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 38280.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: P. Gozza Название: Number to Sound ISBN: 0792360699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792360698 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27251.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Deals with the origin of the modern conception of the object as well as the subject of music. Starting from the magic of numbers of Pythagorean and neo-Platonic doctrines, this volume leads the readers to `sound` and `affections` in modern terms.
Автор: Chapman, Allan Название: England`s Leonardo ISBN: 0367393557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367393557 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 9798.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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All physicists are familiar with Hooke's law of springs, but few will know of his theory of combustion, that his Micrographia was the first book on microscopy, that his astronomical observations were some of the best seen at the time, that he contributed to the knowledge of respiration, insect flight and the properties of gases, that his work on gravitation preceded that of Newton's, that he invented the universal joint, and that he was an architect of distinction and a surveyor for the City of London after the Great Fire.
England's Leonardo is a biography of Hooke covering all aspects of his work, from his early life on the Isle of Wight through his time at Oxford University, where he became part of a group who would form the original Fellowship of the Royal Society. The author adopts a novel approach at this stage, dividing the book by chapter according to the fields of research-Physiology, Engineering, Microscopy, Astronomy, Geology, and Optics-in which Hooke applied himself. The book concludes with a chapter considering the legacy of Hooke and his impact on science.
Автор: Maifreda Название: From Oikonomia to Political Economy ISBN: 1138108391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138108394 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7195.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Renaissance Europe witnessed a surge of interest in new scientific ideas and theories. Whilst the study of this 'Scientific Revolution' has dramatically shifted our appreciation of many facets of the early-modern world, remarkably little attention has been paid to its influence upon one key area; that of economics. Through an interrogation of the relationship between economic and scientific developments in early-modern Western Europe, this book demonstrates how a new economic epistemology appeared that was to have profound consequences both at the time, and for subsequent generations. Dr Maifreda argues that the new attention shown by astronomers, physicians, aristocrats, men of letters, travellers and merchants for the functioning of economic life and markets, laid the ground for a radically new discourse that envisioned 'economics' as an independent field of scientific knowledge. By researching the historical context surrounding this new field of knowledge, he identifies three key factors that contributed to the cultural construction of economics. Firstly, Italian Humanism and Renaissance, which promoted new subjects, methods and quantitative analysis. Secondly, European overseas expansion, which revealed the existence of economic cultures previously unknown to Europeans. Thirdly factor identified is the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century crisis of traditional epistemologies, which increasingly valued empirical scientific knowledge over long-held beliefs. Based on a wide range of published and archival sources, the book illuminates new economic sensibilities within a range of established and more novel scientific disciplines (including astronomy, physics, ethnography, geology, and chemistry/alchemy). By tracing these developments within the wider social and cultural fields of everyday commercial life, the study offers a fascinating insight into the relationship between economic knowledge and science during the early-modern period.
Автор: Harman, Peter Название: The Scientific Revolution ISBN: 0415851564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415851565 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Stephen Gaukroger Название: The Uses of Antiquity ISBN: 9401055106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401055109 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27950.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of W ollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand.
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