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The studies in this volume present early science in its rich and divergent complexity. Many historians of the Scientific Revolution have used early modern scholasticism to represent pre-seventeenth century science as a whole, but a close look at ancient, medieval, and even early modern scientific writers shows that before the Scientific Revolution - and not only in Europe - there were many and diverse traditions of interpreting the natural world. This book provides a broad range of historical evidence concerning early science, which may be used as a basis for new and more complex historical interpretations.
Originally published as Volume XIV, Nos. 1-3 (2009) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine.
Originally published as Volume XIV, Nos. 1-3 (2009) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine.
Price: $185.00
Pages: 458
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
29 September 2009
ISBN: 9789004178786
Format: Hardcover
"Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine is an excellently edited volume that includes sixteen contributions [...] of high quality and will make significant contributions to their respective fields"
- Gad Freudenthal, ISIS, 103: 1 (2012), pp. 164-166
- Gad Freudenthal, ISIS, 103: 1 (2012), pp. 164-166
Edith Dudley Sylla, Ph.D. (1971) in History of Science, Harvard University, is Professor of History Emerita at North Carolina State University. She recently published a study and English translation of Jacob Bernoulli's The Art of Conjecturing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
William R. Newman, Ph.D. (1986) in History of Science, Harvard University, is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. His most recent monographs are Atoms and Alchemy and Promethean Ambitions, both with the University of Chicago Press.
William R. Newman, Ph.D. (1986) in History of Science, Harvard University, is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. His most recent monographs are Atoms and Alchemy and Promethean Ambitions, both with the University of Chicago Press.