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The Scientific Revolution

"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview. "Shapin's account is informed, nuanced, and articulated with clarity. ... This is not to attack or devalue science but to reveal its richness as the human endeavor that it most surely is. . . .Shapin's book is an impressive achievement."David C. Lindberg, Science. "Shapin has used the crucial 17th century as a platform for prese.

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  • "Doing. Shapin argues against traditional views that represent the Scientific Revolution as a coherent, cataclysmic, and once-and-for-all event. Every tendency that has customarily been identified as its modernizing essence was contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Experimentalism was both advocated and rejected; mathematical methods were both celebrated and treated with skepticism; mechanical conceptions of nature."
  • "Rejecting the notion that there is anything like an "essence" of early modern science, Shapin emphasizes the social practices by which scientific knowledge was produced and the social purposes for which it was intended. He shows how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. And he treats science not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and."
  • ""There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview. "Shapin's account is informed, nuanced, and articulated with clarity. ... This is not to attack or devalue science but to reveal its richness as the human endeavor that it most surely is. . . .Shapin's book is an impressive achievement."David C. Lindberg, Science. "Shapin has used the crucial 17th century as a platform for prese."@en
  • "Geschiedenis van de wetenschap, met name de periode rond 1600 waarin het wereldbeeld ingrijpend veranderde."
  • "Shapin claims that there was no such thing as the "Scientific Revolution," neither as a coherent chronological event nor as a movement in science. Instead he writes about how reformed practices of making the same observations led to the creation of "new" ideas."@en
  • "Rejecting the notion that there is anything like an "essence" of early modern science, Shapin emphasizes the social practices by which scientific knowledge was produced and the social purposes for which it was intended. He shows how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. And he treats science not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin argues against traditional views that represent the Scientific Revolution as a coherent, cataclysmic, and once-and-for-all event. Every tendency that has customarily been identified as its modernizing essence was contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Experimentalism was both advocated and rejected; mathematical methods were both celebrated and treated with skepticism; mechanical conceptions of nature. Were seen both as defining proper science and as limited in their intelligibility and application; and the role of experience in making scientific knowledge was treated in radically different ways. Yet Shapin points to the many ways that contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements."@en
  • "La "révolution scientifique" désigne les changements profonds qui affectèrent les savoirs scientifique et philosophique du XVIIe siècle et qui éloignèrent la science de la religion. Pour l'auteur, il faut relativiser ces modifications. Il s'interroge sur la connaissance de la nature à cette époque et sur l'utilisation de ce savoir."
  • "Were seen both as defining proper science and as limited in their intelligibility and application; and the role of experience in making scientific knowledge was treated in radically different ways. Yet Shapin points to the many ways that contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements."
  • ""There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview."

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  • "History"
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  • "1600-1700"
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  • "La revolución científica : una interpretación alternativa"@es
  • "The Scientific Revolution"
  • "The Scientific Revolution"@en
  • "La revolución científica una interpretación alternativa"@es
  • "The Scientific revolution"
  • "La révolution scientifique"
  • "Die wissenschaftliche Revolution"
  • "La rivoluzione scientifica"
  • "La rivoluzione scientifica"@it
  • "La révolución científica una interpretación alternativa"@es
  • "The scientific revolution"@en
  • "The scientific revolution"
  • "Den vitenskapelige revolusjonen"
  • "De wetenschappelijke revolutie"
  • "La Revolución científica : una interpretación alternativa"
  • "La révolución científica"@es

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