Ofer Gal, Raz ChenMorris (Contributor)

Baroque Science

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ISBN 13:: 9780226212982
author:: Ofer Gal, Raz ChenMorris (Contributor)
format:: Paperback
publisher:: University of Chicago Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2013
Pages:: 348
Dimensions:: 15.2 x 2.3 x 22.9 cm
Genre:: History, Other Historical Subjects, History of Science
Condition:: New
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Baroque Science presents a radical new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating reason and rationality, Gal and Chen-Morris explore the paradoxes and anxieties that arose from the New Science. They examine how the protagonists of mathematical natural philosophy relied on artificial instruments to grasp the far and small, and how they justified this approach by downplaying human senses. The authors show how the physical-mathematical ordering of heavens and earth led to obscure mathematical procedures, replacing divine harmonies with isolated laws and approximated constants. The new savants turned to passions to provide an alternative foundation for their epistemology and ethics, mobilizing emotions in pursuit of objective knowledge. This Baroque phenomenon is deeply entrenched in the culture of its time. By examining the intellectual compromises that shaped the New Science, Gal and Chen-Morris reveal a complex and formative period in history.

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