The origins of the idea of scientific progress : Bernard de Fontenelle and his contemporaries /

This volume offers a new interpretation of the genesis of the idea of scientific progress in early modern science and philosophy. The interpretation argues that the idea of scientific progress was not a historical category, but an epistemological one. The main thesis of the book posits that the idea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Špelda, Daniel, 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, [2024].
Series:	International Archives of the History of Ideas = Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; volume 250.
Subjects:	Fontenelle, > M. de > (Bernard Le Bovier), > 1657-1757. Science > France > History > 17th century. Science > France > History > 18th century. Progress > History > 17th century. Progress > History > 18th century. Science > Europe > Philosophy > 17th century. Science > Europe > Philosophy > 18th century. Science and civilization. Enlightenment > France. Science > History.

Table of Contents:

The concept of progress
Teleology and contingency
The end of Contemplator Caeli
The temporal regime of knowledge
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis : the collectivization of knowledge
Progress of the human spirit.