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  • Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences

    de Delphine Bellis, Zvi Biener, Justin E. H. Smith, Angus Gowland, Ruth Hagengruber, Hiro Hirai, Martin Lenz, Gideon Manning, Silvia Manzo, Cesare Pastorino, Marius Stan, Kirsten Walsh ...
    Series series Reference Module Humanities
    This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity. Combining careful contextual reconstruction with arguments from traditional philosophy, the book examines methodological dimensions, breaks down traditional oppositions such as rationalism vs. empiricism, calls attention to gender issues, to ... Leer más

    $899.99 USD

  • Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar

    Essays in Honor of Mordechai Feingold

    Edición de Anna Marie Roos, Gideon Manning ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book brings together leading scholars in the history of science, history of universities, intellectual history, and the history of the Royal Society, to honor Professor Mordechai Feingold. The essays collected here reflect the impact Feingold's scholarship has had on a range of fields and address several topics, including: the dynamic pedagogical techniques employed in early modern ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Testimonies: States of Mind and States of the Body in the Early Modern Period

    Edición de Gideon Manning ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book reconnects health and thought, as the two were treated together in the seventeenth century, and by reuniting them, it adds a significant dimension to our historical understanding. Indeed, there is hardly a single early modern figure who took a serious interest in one but not the other, with their attitudes toward body-mind interaction often revealed in acts of self-diagnosis and ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine

    Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi

    Edición de Cynthia Klestinec, Gideon Manning ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book. The volume honors Professor Nancy Siraisi and reflects the impact that Siraisi's scholarship has had on a range of fields. Contributions address several topics ranging from the medical provenance of biblical commentary to the ... Leer más

    $152.99 USD

  • Biomedical Visions

    Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice

    de Virginia Marano, Charlotte Matter, Laura Valterio, Jacob van der Beugel, Lara Keuck, Jaipreet Virdi, Nimisha Bhanot, Paula Muhr, Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez, Stephen A. Geller, Gideon Manning, Flora Lysen, Marlene Bart, Cornelius Borck, Robert Meunier, Adam Christianson, Ariane Hanemaayer, Jan M. Friedman, Alison Elliott, Awa Naghipour, Joana Atemengue Owona, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Cat Dawson ...
    We live in an age of biomedical visions. There seems to be no end to the demystification of the body through visualization technologies and the promise of health is irresistible. Yet alongside these promising technologies, inequalities in healthcare persist. Life and illness play out in the gap between visualized bodies and ideological notions of health and disease. This publication brings ... Leer más

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  • The Invention of Science

    A New History of the Scientific Revolution

    de David Wootton ...
    This "fantastic revisionist history . . . captures the excitement of the scientific revolution and makes a point of celebrating the advances it ushered in" ( Financial Times).We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. In The Invention of Science, historian David Wootton reveals why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. Spanning continents and centuries ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • A Discourse on the Method

    of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences

    Traducido por Ian Maclean ...
    de René Descartes ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes'sA Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • The Restless Clock

    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

    de Jessica Riskin ...
    A "wide-ranging, witty, and astonishingly learned" scientific and cultural history of the concept of the capacity to act in nature ( London Review of Books).Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Inventing Chemistry

    Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

    de John C. Powers ...
    Series series Synthesis
    The story of this little-known Dutch physician "will interest students and practitioners of history, chemistry, and philosophy of science" ( Choice).In Inventing Chemistry, historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity

    de Catherine Wilson ...
    This landmark study examines the role played by the rediscovery of the writings of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius, in the articulation of the major philosophical systems of the seventeenth century, and, more broadly, their influence on the evolution of natural science and moral and political philosophy. The target of sustained and trenchant philosophical criticism by Cicero, and of ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution

    From Copernicus to Newton

    Edición de Wilbur Applebaum ...
    With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged.Covering the historiography of the ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion

    Mechanical Philosophy in the Making

    de Klaas van Berkel ...
    Traducido por Maarten Ultee ...
    Explore the work of a founding father of the mechanical philosophy of nature, Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637).The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific thought has never been properly acknowledged. Surprisingly free from the constraints of traditional natural philosophy, he developed a view of the world in which everything, from the motion of the ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD