The Scientific Revolution Revisited
by Mikuláš Teich /
2015 / English / PDF
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The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to
the great movement of thought and action that transformed European
science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a
lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich
examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that
matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting
their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on
the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing
social environment. The Scientific Revolution was marked by the
global expansion of trade by European powers and by interstate
rivalries for a stake in the developing world market, in which
advanced medieval China, remarkably, did not participate. It is in
the wake of these happenings, in Teich's original retelling, that
the Thirty Years War and the Scientific Revolution emerge as
products of and factors in an uneven transition in European and
world history: from natural philosophy to modern science, feudalism
to capitalism, the late medieval to the early modern period. With a
narrative that moves from pre-classical thought to the European
institutionalisation of science - and a scope that embraces figures
both lionised and neglected, such as Nicole Oresme, Francis Bacon,
Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Thaddeus Hagecius,
Johann Joachim Becher - The Scientific Revolution Revisited
illuminates the social and intellectual sea changes that shaped the
modern world.
The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to
the great movement of thought and action that transformed European
science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a
lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich
examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that
matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting
their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on
the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing
social environment. The Scientific Revolution was marked by the
global expansion of trade by European powers and by interstate
rivalries for a stake in the developing world market, in which
advanced medieval China, remarkably, did not participate. It is in
the wake of these happenings, in Teich's original retelling, that
the Thirty Years War and the Scientific Revolution emerge as
products of and factors in an uneven transition in European and
world history: from natural philosophy to modern science, feudalism
to capitalism, the late medieval to the early modern period. With a
narrative that moves from pre-classical thought to the European
institutionalisation of science - and a scope that embraces figures
both lionised and neglected, such as Nicole Oresme, Francis Bacon,
Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Thaddeus Hagecius,
Johann Joachim Becher - The Scientific Revolution Revisited
illuminates the social and intellectual sea changes that shaped the
modern world.