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Author : Alain Mothu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503561110
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Révolution scientifique et libertinage written by Alain Mothu and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Antonella Del Prete
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Révolution scientifique et libertinage written by Antonella Del Prete and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peut-on mettre en relation - et de quelle façon ? - l'émergence et le déploiement de la science moderne, au XVIIe siècle, avec ceux du "libertinage" ou "libertinisme" pendant cette période ? C'est à cette question complexe et quelque peu redoutable, car elle concerne les origines de notre modernité, que se sont efforcés de répondre treize historiens des idées scientifiques, philosophiques ou littéraires. Il n'était pas à l'ordre du jour - il parut même présomptueux ou prématuré - d'affronter le problème dans son abstraite généralité : il s'agissait bien plutôt de mettre en lumière, aussi précisément que possible, le cheminement intellectuel de certains hommes de science, de certains libertins avérés, ou la fortune d'une idée apparemment "transversale". Ce recueil permet le repérage des nombreuses voies de rencontre qui parfois favorisèrent le dialogue entre hommes de science et esprits "déniaisés" au XVIIe siècle, mais aussi des obstacles qui parfois l'empêchèrent. Il fait peut-être entrevoir la lente émergence d'un régime univoque de la "raison", à mesure que le siècle avance. Enfin, sa polyphonie interdisciplinaire apporte un éclairage varié sur certaines théories et notions philosophiques, comme l'atomisme et l'infini, qui jouent un rôle capital au XVIIe siècle. Auteurs : Armand Beaulieu, Michel Blay, François de Graux, Antonella Del Prete, Dominique Descotes, Vincent Jullien, Didier Kahn, Alain Mothu, Alain Niderst, Isabelle Pantin, Richard H. Popkin, Giovanni Ruocco, Bertram E. Schwarzbach, Ann Thomson."
Author : David Wootton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300170068
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Galileo written by David Wootton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Demonstrates an awesome command of the vast Galileo literature . . . [Wootton] excels in boldly speculating about Galileo’s motives” (The New York Times Book Review). Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer, and author, David Wootton places him at the center of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years; the beginnings of his scientific career constructing a “new physics”; his move to Florence seeking money, status, and greater freedom to attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy and narrow escape from torture; and his house arrest and physical (though not intellectual) decline. Wootton also reveals much that is new—from Galileo’s premature Copernicanism to a previously unrecognized illegitimate daughter—and, controversially, rejects the long-established belief that Galileo was a good Catholic. Absolutely central to Galileo’s significance—and to science more broadly—is the telescope, the potential of which Galileo was the first to grasp. Wootton makes clear that it totally revolutionized and galvanized scientific endeavor to discover new and previously unimagined facts. Drawing extensively on Galileo’s voluminous letters, many of which were self-censored and sly, this is an original, arresting, and highly readable biography of a difficult, remarkable Renaissance genius. Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in the Astronautics and Astronomy Category “Fascinating reading . . . With this highly adventurous portrayal of Galileo’s inner world, Wootton assures himself a high rank among the most radical recent Galileo interpreters . . . Undoubtedly Wootton makes an important contribution to Galileo scholarship.” —America magazine “Wootton’s biography . . . is engagingly written and offers fresh insights into Galileo’s intellectual development.” —Standpoint magazine
Author : Gianni Paganini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402085184
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Scepticisms written by Gianni Paganini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance scepticism, an overall synthesis comprising the entire period has not been achieved yet. No predetermined idea of that complex historical subject that is Renaissance scepticism underlies this book, and we want to sacrifice the complexity of movements, personalities, tendencies and interpretations to any sort of a priori unity of theme even less. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that we had always thought of “scepticisms” in the plural, and believe that the different contexts (philosophical, religious, cultural) in which these forms grew up must also be taken into account. Furthermore, given the transversal nature and provocative character of the sceptical challenge, this book contains essays also on philosophers who, without being sceptics and sometimes engaged in fighting scepticism, nevertheless took up its challenge. The main authors considered in this book are: Vives, Castellio, Agrippa, Pedro de Valencia, Pico, Sanchez, Montaigne, Charron, Bruno, Bacon, and Campanella. The various essays in the book show the relevance of the philosophical thought of authors little known by the general public and put in new perspective important aspects of the thought of some of the great thinkers of the Renaissance.
Author : Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520253876
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Retrying Galileo, 1633–1992 written by Maurice A. Finocchiaro and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is must reading for historians of science and a delight for the interested public. From his access to many primary sources in the Vatican Library and from his broad knowledge of the history of the 17th century, Finocchiaro acquaints readers in an interesting manner with the historical facts of Galileo's trial, its aftermath, and its repercussions. Unlike many other works which present predetermined and, at times, prejudiced judgments, this work provides exhaustive evidence to allow readers to develop their own informed opinion on the subject.”—George V. Coyne, Director, Vatican Astronomical Observatory “The tragic condemnation of Galileo by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633 has become the single most potent symbol of authoritarian opposition to new ideas. Pioneering in its scope, Finocchiaro's book provides a fascinating account of how the trial and its cultural significance have been freshly reconstructed by scholars and polemicists down the ages. With a philosopher's eye for fine distinctions, the author has written an exciting commentary on the successive appearance of new primary sources and their exploitation for apologetic and secular purposes.”—John Hedley Brooke, author of Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives "If good history begins with good facts, then Retrying Galileo should be the starting point for all future discussions of the post-trial phase of the Galileo affair. Maurice Finocchiaro's myth-busting documentary history is not only a repository of little-known sources but a pleasure to read as well.”—Ronald L. Numbers, co-editor of When Christianity and Science Meet “Retrying Galileo tells the less well-known half of the Galileo affair: its long and complex history after 1633. Finocchiaro has performed an invaluable service in writing a book that explores how the trial and condemnation of Galileo has been received, debated, and reinterpreted for over three and a half centuries. We are not yet done with this contentious story.”—Paula E. Findlen, Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program, Stanford University
Author : Federico Barbierato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317027523
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop written by Federico Barbierato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early modern Venice was an exceptional city. Located at the intersection of trade routes and cultural borders, it teemed with visitors, traders, refugees and intellectuals. It is perhaps unsurprising, then, that such a city should foster groups and individuals of unorthodox beliefs, whose views and life styles would bring them into conflict with the secular and religious authorities. Drawing on a vast store of primary sources - particularly those of the Inquisition - this book recreates the social fabric of Venice between 1640 and 1740. It brings back to life a wealth of minor figures who inhabited the city, and fostered ideas of dissent, unbelief and atheism in the teeth of the Counter-Reformation. The book vividly paints a scene filled with craftsmen, friars and priests, booksellers, apothecaries and barbers, bustling about the city spaces of sociability, between coffee-houses and workshops, apothecaries' and barbers' shops, from the pulpit and drawing rooms, or simply publicly speaking about their ideas. To give depth to the cases identified, the author overlays a number of contextual themes, such as the survival of Protestant (or crypto-Protestant) doctrines, the political situation at any given time, and the networks of dissenting groups that flourished within the city, such as the 'free metaphysicists' who gathered in the premises of the hatter Bortolo Zorzi. In so doing this rich and thought provoking book provides a systematic overview of how Venetian ecclesiastical institutions dealt with the sheer diffusion of heterodox and atheistical ideas at different social levels. It will be of interest not only to scholars of Venice, but all those with an interest in the intellectual, cultural and religious history of early-modern Europe.
Author : Giovanni Santinello
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048195071
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Models of the History of Philosophy written by Giovanni Santinello and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the translation of "Dall'età cartesiana a Brucker", the second volume of the multi-volume work "Storia delle storie generali della filosofia". It guides the reader from the Cartesian rejection of the ‘philosophical past’ that found voice in the work of Malebranche, to the establishment of a ‘critical’ history of philosophy by 18th century thinkers A.-F Boureau-Deslandes and J.J. Brucker. The latter pair investigated philosophy from its most ancient origins up to the contemporary age, and oversaw the transformation of the history of philosophy into a genre in its own right, thus spawning dozens of works that made a major contribution to the culture of the Enlightenment. Through careful analysis of more than 36 separate works, the authors show how in the span of a single century the theoretical and methodological techniques used to assess the history of philosophy were refined and developed.
Author : Richard H. Popkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880409
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The History of Scepticism written by Richard H. Popkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages. This authoritative work of historical scholarship has been revised throughout, including new material on: the introduction of ancient skepticism into Renaissance Europe; the role of Savonarola and his disciples in bringing Sextus Empiricus to the attention of European thinkers; and new material on Henry More, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, G.W. Leibniz, Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet, and Pierre Bayle. The bibliography has also been updated.
Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019251721X
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism written by Steven Nadler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on René Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography (including his background, intellectual contexts, writings, and correspondence) and philosophy, with chapters on his epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics. The chapters of the second part are devoted to the defense, development and modification of Descartes's ideas by later generations of Cartesian philosophers in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and elsewhere. The third and final part considers the opposition to Cartesian philosophy by other philosophers, as well as by civil, ecclesiastic, and academic authorities. This handbook provides an extensive overview of Cartesianism - its doctrines, its legacies and its fortunes - in the period based on the latest research.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : St. Louis (Emeritus) Richard H. Popkin Professor of Philosophy Washington University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198026716
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The History of Scepticism : From Savonarola to Bayle written by St. Louis (Emeritus) Richard H. Popkin Professor of Philosophy Washington University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003-02-21 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin's work has generated innumerable citations, and remains a valuable stimulus to current historical research. In this updated version, he has revised and expanded throughout, and has added three new chapters, one on Savonarola, one on Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and one on Pascal. This authoritative treatment of the theme of scepticism and its historical impact will appeal to scholars and students of early modern history now as much as ever.
Author : Gianni Paganini
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487504616
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Clandestine Philosophy written by Gianni Paganini and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190678895
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book On the Edge of Eternity written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available in medieval and early modern Europe and that the discovery of geological time in the eighteenth century came as a momentous breakthrough that shook the faith in the historical accuracy of the Bible. Historians of science, mainstream geologists, and Young Earth creationists alike all share the assumption that the notion of an ancient Earth was highly heterodox in the pre-modern era. The old age of the world is regarded as the offspring of a secularized science. In this book, Ivano Dal Prete radically revises the commonplace history of deep time in Western culture. He argues that the chronology of the Bible always coexisted with alternative approaches that placed the origin of the Earth into a far, undetermined (or even eternal) past. From the late Middle Ages, these notions spread freely not only in universities and among the learned, but even in popular works of meteorology, geology, literature, and art that made them easily accessible to a vernacular and scientifically illiterate public. Religious authorities did not regard these notions as particularly problematic, let alone heretical. Neither the authors nor their numerous readers thought that holding such views was incompatible with their Christian faith. While the appeal of theories centered on the biblical Flood and on a young Earth gained popularity over the course of the seventeenth century, their more secular alternatives remained vital and debated. Enlightenment thinkers, however, created a myth of a Christian tradition that uniformly rejected the antiquity of the world, as opposed to a new secular science ready to welcome it. Largely unchallenged for almost three centuries, that account solidified over time into a still dominant truism. Based on a wealth of mostly unexplored sources, On the Edge of Eternity offers an original and nuanced account of the history of deep time that illuminates the relationship between the history of science and Christianity in the medieval and early modern periods, with lasting implications for Western society.
Author : Dana Jalobeanu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3319310690
Total Pages : 2267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences written by Dana Jalobeanu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-27 with total page 2267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Encyclopedia offers a fresh, integrated and creative perspective on the formation and foundations of philosophy and science in European modernity. Combining careful contextual reconstruction with arguments from traditional philosophy, the book examines methodological dimensions, breaks down traditional oppositions such as rationalism vs. empiricism, calls attention to gender issues, to ‘insiders and outsiders’, minor figures in philosophy, and underground movements, among many other topics. In addition, and in line with important recent transformations in the fields of history of science and early modern philosophy, the volume recognizes the specificity and significance of early modern science and discusses important developments including issues of historiography (such as historical epistemology), the interplay between the material culture and modes of knowledge, expert knowledge and craft knowledge. This book stands at the crossroads of different disciplines and combines their approaches – particularly the history of science, the history of philosophy, contemporary philosophy of science, and intellectual and cultural history. It brings together over 100 philosophers, historians of science, historians of mathematics, and medicine offering a comprehensive view of early modern philosophy and the sciences. It combines and discusses recent results from two very active fields: early modern philosophy and the history of (early modern) science. Editorial Board EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Dana Jalobeanu University of Bucharest, Romania Charles T. Wolfe Ghent University, Belgium ASSOCIATE EDITORS Delphine Bellis University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Zvi Biener University of Cincinnati, OH, USA Angus Gowland University College London, UK Ruth Hagengruber University of Paderborn, Germany Hiro Hirai Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Martin Lenz University of Groningen, The Netherlands Gideon Manning CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USA Silvia Manzo University of La Plata, Argentina Enrico Pasini University of Turin, Italy Cesare Pastorino TU Berlin, Germany Lucian Petrescu Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Justin E. H. Smith University de Paris Diderot, France Marius Stan Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA Koen Vermeir CNRS-SPHERE + Université de Paris, France Kirsten Walsh University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Author : Martin Mulsow
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004147152
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Socinianism And Arminianism written by Martin Mulsow and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies Socinianism in its relationship to "liberal" currents in reformed Protestantism, namely Dutch Remonstrants, English Latitudinarians and parts of the French Huguenots. What effects did its transition from Poland to the "modernized" intellectual milieus in the Netherlands and England have?
Author : Steven Shapin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782082112345
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (123 download)
Download or read book La révolution scientifique written by Steven Shapin and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La " révolution scientifique " désigne traditionnellement, on le sait, les changements profonds qui affectèrent les savoirs scientifique et philosophique au XVIIe siècle. Descartes, Mersenne, Newton, Galilée... furent les artisans de ce tournant qui vit naître, dit-on, la science moderne. Dès l'ouverture de son ouvrage, Steven Shapin corrige le regard souvent caricatural que l'on porte sur cette époque et s'attaque à ce qu'il considère comme un mythe épistémologique : " Il n'aura pas eu de Révolution scientifique ", affirme-t-il, mais la fabrication de savoirs ressortissant à des finalités souvent pratiques : des ruptures ponctuelles et locales à l'intérieur de continuités fortes. Que connaissait-on de la nature au XVIIe siècle ? Par quels moyens ? A quoi ce savoir servait-il ? Examinant successivement ces trois questions, Steven Shapin bouscule quelques idées reçues : l'expérimentation trouva d'ardents défenseurs mais aussi de nombreux sectateurs : le triomphe des mathématiques n'alla pas sans scepticisme : et les philosophes mécanistes, loin de renoncer aux vérités de la foi, eurent souvent le souci de célébrer l'œuvre divine à travers l'étude des phénomènes physiques. Ainsi resitués dans leur époque et dans un contexte économique, politique et social précis, les bouleversements du savoir à l'époque moderne deviennent autant de repères pour penser les pratiques scientifiques de notre temps.
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462636
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Cultural Translation in Early Modern Europe written by Peter Burke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking 2007 volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the history of translation has generally been neglected by historians, who have left it to specialists in literature and language. This book seeks to achieve an understanding of the contribution of translation to the spread of information in early modern Europe. It focuses on non-fiction: the translation of books on religion, history, politics and especially on science, or 'natural philosophy', as it was generally known at this time. The chapters cover a wide range of languages, including Latin, Greek, Russian, Turkish and Chinese. The book will appeal to scholars and students of the early modern and later periods, to historians of science and of religion, as well as to anyone interested in translation studies.
