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...

List of Illustrations

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1. Image of heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (c. 1543). Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Copernican_heliocentrism.jpg 132. Palaeolithic painting, Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave (southern France), c. 32,000-30,000 BP. Wikimedia Commons...

Note on Terminology and Acknowledgements

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In a book about the much debated Scientific Revolution, problems unavoidably arise with terminology. They pertain to terms such as science/normal science/modern science, and social/societal, among others. I regret possible ambiguities in their employment despite efforts to be consistent. There is al...

Preface

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In 1969, after taking up a Visiting Scholarship at King’s College, Cambridge, I was approached by the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, to give a public lecture. The subject-matter I chose was ‘Three Revolutions: The Scientific, Industrial and Scientific-Tech...

Introduction

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IThis book is about interpreting the Scientific Revolution as a distinctive movement directed towards the exploration of the world of nature and coming into its own in Europe by the end of the seventeenth century. The famed English historian Lord Acton (1834-1902) is said to have advised that proble...

1. From Pre-classical to Classical Pursuits

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The themeIn the main, historians and philosophers of science have come to differentiate between the Scientific Revolution and scientific revolutions. The former term generally refers to the great movement of thought and action associated with the theoretical and practical pursuits of Nicolaus Copern...

2. Experimentation and Quantification

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Medieval worldAt the end of the 1970s, sociologists of science and sociologically-orientated historians of science began to pay attention to experimentation. Even if their claim that experimentation had been neglected was overstated, it is true that historical literature is rich neither in works dea...

3. Institutionalisation of Science

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EnglandThe founding of the Royal Society has been linked to the thinking of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) on organised science (about which more in the next chapter). The Royal Society is the premier scientific body in Britain, and some would claim the world, but it is not the oldest.Two short-lived Ita...

4. Truth(s)

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Collective truth: BaconThat the collaborative interrogation of the natural world, promoted by the Royal Society in its early days, could be more productive than individual endeavour was brought home to the learned world by Francis Bacon. His depiction of the fictional Solomon’s House in the New Atla...

5. The Scientific Revolution: The Big Picture

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Was science born/invented and, if so, when?‘There is no such thing as the Scientific Revolution and this is a book about it’. With this somewhat baffling sentence Steven Shapin begins his scrutiny of the movement which, as I argue, came into its own in certain European countries in the sixteenth and...

6. West and East European Contexts

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The demise of the feudal system in Europe: technical development and international tradePrinting, gunpowder and the magnetic compass have long been cited as hallmarks of the cultural and technical superiority of medieval China. This has been the case ever since Francis Bacon pinpointed them as the t...

Epilogue

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Becher was a polymath whose interests included human and veterinary medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry, education, philology, technology, husbandry, political economy, social organisation, colonialism and natural philosophy. It is the sheer breadth of his inquiries that demands an interdiscip...

References

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Abulafia, D., ‘The Impact of Italian Banking in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 1300-1500’, in Teichova, A., Kurgan-van Hentenryk, G., and Ziegler, D. (eds.), Banking, Trade and Industry: Europe, America and Asia from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University...

Index

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absolute monarchy 52-53Abulafia, David 48Académie Royale des Sciences 64Acton, Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton) 5Agricola, Georgius 110Agricultural Revolution 19agriculture 18-19, 59, 67, 69, 73, 77, 97-99Alberti, Leon Battista 36alchemy 88, 104, 115Amsterdam 109Amsterdam Ex...

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Ackerman James, « Early Renaissance “Naturalism” and Scientific Illustration », dans Ellenius Allan (dir.), The Natural Sciences and the Arts, Stockholm, Almqvist, 1985, p. 1-17.Adams C. W., « A Note on Galileo’s Determination of the Height of Lunar Mountains », Isis, vol. 17, no 2, 1932, p. 427-429...