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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Revolutionizing the sciences
    sub title: European knowledge and its ambitions, 1500-1700
  name:
    name part: Dear, Peter
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 2nd ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction: Natural philosophy and instrumentality -- "What was worth knowing" in 1500 -- Humanism and ancient wisdom: how to learn things in the sixteenth century -- The alchemist, the craftsman, and the scholar -- Mathematics challenges philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the mathematical practitioners -- Mechanism and corpuscles : Descartes builds a universe -- Extra-curricular activities: new homes for natural knowledge -- Experiment: how to learn things about nature in the seventeenth century -- Cartesians and Newtonians -- Conclusion: what was worth knowing by the eighteenth century?
  note: Peter Dear.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: Europe
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Social aspects
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Science and civilization
    topic: History
  classification: Q127.E8 D433 2009
  classification: 500
  identifier: 9780691142067
  identifier: 0691142068
  identifier: 2008938497
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 090507
    record change date: 20151111075249.0
    record identifier: in00002520887