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The rise of modern science : external or internal factors?

Title
The rise of modern science : external or internal factors? / edited with an introduction by George Basalla.
Author
Basalla, George.
Publication
Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath, ©1968.

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Description
xvi, 109 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Problems in European civilization
Uniform Title
Problems in European civilization
Subject
  • Science > History
  • Science
  • Entwicklung
  • Wirtschaft
  • Exacte wetenschappen
  • Science > History
  • Sciences et société
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Physical science in the Middle Ages / William Whewell -- The discovery of the world and man / Jakob C. Burckhardt -- The continuity of Medieval and 17th century science /Alistair C. Crombie -- Renaissance science as seen by Burckhardt and his successors / Edward Rosen -- The social and economic roots of Newton's Principia / Boris M. Hessen -- Science, technology, and society in seventeenth century England / Robert K. Merton -- The scientific role: the conditions of its establishment in Europe / Joseph Ben-David -- Science and the Reformation / Reijer Hooykaas -- Catholicism, Protestantism, and science / François Russo -- The psychological revolution: the emotional source of the scientific movement / Lewis S. Feuer -- The role of art in the scientific renaissance / Giorgio de Santillana -- The chemical philosophy of the Renaissance / Allen G. Debus -- Merton revivied, or science and society in the seventeenth century / A. Rupert Hall -- The significance of the Newtonian synthesis / Alexander Koyré -- Suggestions for additional reading.
ISBN
  • 0245595104
  • 9780245595103
LCCN
68020418
OCLC
  • ocm00441461
  • 441461
  • SCSB-170250
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library