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scientific enterprise in early modern Europe
337 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm.
The Melanchthon circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg interpretation of the Copernican theory / Robert S. Westman -- Laboratory design and the aim of science : Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe / Owen Hannaway -- "Good fences make good neighbors" : geography as self-definition in early modern England / Lesley B. Cormack -- What happened to occult qualities in the scientific revolution? / Keith Hutchison -- Galileo, motion, and essences / Margaret J. Osler -- Science and patronage : Galileo and the telescope / Richard S. Westfall -- The telescope in the seventeenth century / Albert Van Helden -- Descartes on refraction : scientific versus rhetorical method / Bruce Stansfield Eastwood -- Early seventeenth-century atomism : theory, epistemology, and the insufficiency of experiment / Christoph Meinel -- Robert Boyle and structural chemistry in the seventeenth century / Thomas S. Kuhn -- Newton's alchemy and his theory of matter / B.J.T. Dobbs -- Totius in verba : rhetoric and authority in the early royal society / Peter Dear -- The house of experiment in seventeenth-century England / Steven Shapin -- Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy : a turning point for women in science / Londa Schiebinger.
"These essays originally appeared in [the journal] Isis."--Title page verso.
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