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Ingenious pursuits building the scientific revolution

Lisa Jardine

Localização: EACH - Esc. Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (509 J37i ) e outros locais(Acessar)

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Ingenious pursuits building the scientific revolution
Autor: Lisa Jardine
Assuntos: Science, Renaissance; Science -- Europe -- History; Technology -- Europe -- History; HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA
Notas: Referências e índice
Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-431) and index
Descrição: "In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering. Ingenious Pursuits brilliantly chronicles the true intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves and of the world around us. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Editor: New York Anchor Books
Data de criação/publicação: 2000
Formato: xx, 444 p. ill., maps, ports. 21 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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