Add this copy of Revolution and Continuity: Essays in the History and to cart. $162.00, like new condition, Sold by MW Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, G, IRELAND, published 1991 by Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press.
Edition:
1991, Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press
Published:
1991
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18812894777
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Physical description; v, 222 pages: illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-211) and index. Contents; Societies, circles, academies, and organizations: a historiographic essay on seventeenth-century science / David Lux--Tradition versus novelty: universities and scientific societies in the early modern period / Mordechai Feingold--Physick and natural history in seventeenth-century England / Harold Cook--A new science of geology in the seventeenth-century? / Roger Ariew--Innovation and continuity in the history of astronomy: the case of the rotating moon / Alan Gabbey--The heavens and earth: Bellarmine and Galileo / Joseph Pitt--The blasphemy of Alfonso X: history or myth? / Bernard R. Goldstein--Cavalieri's indivisibles and Euclid's canons / François De Gandt--Descartes' Geometry and the classical tradition / Emily Grosholz. Subjects; 1600-1699. Science History. Science History 17th century. Science Philosophy History. Continuity. Philosophy history. Science. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.
