Overview
1. Ofer Gal and Raz Chen Morris: Baroque Modes and the Production of Knowledge.- A. Order.- 2. John Schuster: What Was the Relation of Baroque Culture to the Trajectory of Early Modern Natural Philosophy?.- 3. Koen Vermeir: "Bent And Directed Towards Him: " A Baroque Perspective on Kircher's Sunflower Clock.- 4. Ofer Gal: From Divine Order to Human Approximation: Mathematics in Baroque Science.- B. Vision.- 5. Raz Chen-Morris: "The Quality of Nothing," Or Kepler's Visual Economy of Science.- 6. Paula Findlen: Agostino Scilla: A Baroque Painter in Pursuit of Science.- 7. J.B. Shank: What Exactly Was "Torricelli's Barometer?".- 8. Alan Salter: William Harvey and the Way of the Artisan.- C. Excess.- 9. John Gascoigne: Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Francis Bacon, the Scientific Revolution and the New World.- 10. Nicholas Dew: The Hive and the Pendulum: Universal Metrology and Baroque Science.-11. Victor Boantza: Chymical Philosophy and Boyle's Incongruous Philosophical Chymistry.-12 Rivka Feldhay: The Simulation of Nature and the Dissimulation of the Law on a Baroque Stage: Galileo and the Church Revisited.
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- ISBN-13: 9789400795136
- ISBN-10: 9400795130
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: December 2014
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.67 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.99 pounds
- Page Count: 314
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