Wrestling with nature : from omens to science / edited by Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank.

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 416 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780226318035
0226318036
1283362589
9781283362580
9786613362582
6613362581

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wrestling with nature.DDC classification:

508.09 509

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Q125.W86 2011

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Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia / Francesca Rochberg; 2. Natural Knowledge in the Classical World / Daryn Lehoux; 3. Natural Knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages / Jon McGinnis; 4. Natural Knowledge in the Latin Middle Ages / Michael H. Shank; 5. Natural History / Peter Harrison; 6. Mixed Mathematics / Peter Dear; 7. Natural Philosophy / John L. Heilbron; 8. Science and Medicine / Ronald L. Numbers; 9. Science and Technology / Ronald R. Kline; 10. Science and Religion / Jon H. Roberts.

11. Science, Pseudoscience, and Science Falsely So-Called / Daniel P. Thurs and Ronald L. Numbers12. Scientific Methods / Daniel P. Thurs; 13. Science and the Public / Bernard Lightman; 14. Science and Place / David N. Livingstone; Contributors; Index.

Summary: When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appearance of science was postponed until the nineteenth century. Rather than posit a modern definition of science and search for evidence of it in the past, the contributors to Wrestling with Nature examine how students of nat.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early modern Europe, which saw the triumph of Copernicanism and the birth of experimental science, while yet another view is that the appearance of science was postponed until the nineteenth century. Rather than posit a modern definition of science and search for evidence of it in the past, the contributors to Wrestling with Nature examine how students of nat.