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Baroque Science - Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris 2013 EPUB University of Chicago Press BOOKS SCIENCE AND STUDY
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Baroque Science
Author: Ofer Gal, Raz Chen-Morris
Year: 2013
Format: EPUB
File size: 18 MB
Language: ENG

In Baroque Science, Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating the triumph of reason and rationality, they study the paradoxes and anxieties that stemmed from the New Science and the intellectual compromises that shaped it and enabled its spectacular success. Gal and Chen-Morris show how the protagonists of the new mathematical natural philosophy grasped at the very far and very small by entrusting observation to the mediation of artificial instruments, and how they justified this mediation by naturalizing and denigrating the human senses.

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