The Arts of 17th-Century Science : Representations of the Natural World in European and North American Culture.

Contemporary ideals of science representing disinterested and objective fields of investigation have their origins in the seventeenth century. However, 'new science' did not simply or uniformly replace earlier beliefs about the workings of the natural world, but entered into competition wi...

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Main Author: Jowitt, Claire
Other Authors: Watt, Diane
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2002
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