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<p><P>This collection brings together thirteen articles on early modern Western science, each representing an important contribution to the ways in which the scientific revolution is regarded today. <br><br>The anthology features classic and prize-winning articles by renowned scholars, including <i>Totius in verba</i>: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society, by Peter Dear; The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory, by Robert S. Westman; Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science, by Owen Hannaway; Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England, by Lesley B. Cormack; What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution? by Keith Hutchison; and Galileo, Motion, and Essences, by Margaret J. Osler. <br><br>Also, Scientific Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope, by Richard S. Westfall; The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century, by Albert Van Helden; Descartes on Refraction, by Bruce S. Eastwood; Early Seventeenth-Century Atomism, by Christoph Meinel; Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century, by Thomas S. Kuhn; Newton's Alchemy and His Theory of Matter, by B. J. T. Dobbs; The House o
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- Author
- Peter Dear (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press Journals
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226139470
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Mathematics
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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