The scientific revolution

Author(s)

• Shapin, Steven

Bibliographic Information

The scientific revolution

Steven Shapin

University of Chicago Press, c1996

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This work contains Steven Shapin's historical exploration into the origins of the modern scientific worldview. What historians have traditionally called the Scientific Revolution was, in Shapin's view, a diversity of practices and ideas that developed over the course of nearly two centuries. Rejecting the idea that there is anything like an "essence" of early modern science, the author shows that the Scientific Revolution in reality lacked the jarring abruptness and cataclysmic nature implied by its "revolutionary" name.

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Details

• NCID: BA28694690
• ISBN:
  • 0226750205
  • 0226750213
• LCCN: 96013196
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 218 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Q125
  • DC20 : 509
  • NDC8 : 402
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Science -- History