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100 1 _aDascal, Marcelo.
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245 1 0 _aControversies Within the Scientific Revolution.
260 _aAmsterdam/Philadelphia :
_bJohn Benjamins Pub. Co.,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (294 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aControversies (CVS) ;
_vv. 11
505 0 0 _tIntroduction: Controversies and the dialectical texture of the Scientific Revolution --
_gpt. I.
_tAstronomy and mechanics --
_tHonoré Fabri S.
_tJ.
_tand Galileo's law of fall: What kind of controversy? --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tThe emergence of Fabri's theory of free fall --
_g3.
_tFabri's argument in context --
_tGalileo, the Jesuits, and the controversy over the comets --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tThe arguments --
_g3.
_tThe Assayer --
_g4.
_tThe price: Back to Aristotelianism --
_g5.
_tThe rival: The Jesuits' mild instrumentalism --
_g6.
_tThe supremacy of the instrument --
_g7.
_tRadical instrumentalism --
_tFair-mindedness versus sophistry in the Galileo affair --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tAntonio Querenghi --
_g3.
_tQuerenghi's reports on Galileo in Rome in 1615-1616 --
_g4.
_tMisinterpretations of Querenghi's reports --
_g5.
_tMore careful critical analysis of Querenghi's reports --
_g6.
_tDeeper analysis of Querenghi's key point: Fair-mindedness --
_g7.
_tGalileo's reflective formulation of the fairness principle --
_g8.
_tGalileo's fair-minded practice: Venus objection --
_g9.
_tGalileo's fair-minded practice: Extrusion objection --
_g10.
_tRecapitulation and next step --
_g11.
_tStrengthening the sophistry objection vs.
_tGalileo --
_g12.
_tAdditional strengthening of the sophistry objection --
_g13.
_tConclusion.
505 8 0 _gpt. II.
_tLight and gravity --
_tFrom cohesion to pesanteur: The origins of the 1669 debate on the causes of gravity --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tThe causes of gravity --
_g3.
_tThe Newtonian context: Forces, big and small --
_g4.
_tThe causes of coagulation: Chymistry and mechanism --
_g5.
_tConclusion --
_tLeibniz versus Newton on the nature of gravity and planetary motion --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tTwo competing theories --
_g3.
_tNatural versus miraculous --
_g4.
_tMethodology and the role of hypotheses --
_g5.
_tConclusion --
_tThe argumentative use of methodology: Lessons from a controversy following Newton's first optical paper --
_g1.
_tScientific debates and the emergence of modern science --
_g2.
_tA brief overview of the controversy and its historiography --
_g3.
_tThe methodology of reconstruction and the position of the protagonist --
_g4.
_tUnderstanding the position of the historian --
_g5.
_tThe natural, the social, and the argumentative --
_g6.
_tHow to read charitably --
_g7.
_tThe consequences of 'radical dialectification' --
_g8.
_tConclusions.
505 8 0 _gpt. III.
_tPhysiology and vitalism --
_tSalient theories in the fossil debate in the early Royal Society --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tContext --
_g3.
_tMartin Lister and his theory of fossils: A refutation of Helmont --
_g4.
_tRobert Plot and fossilisation --
_g5.
_tConclusion --
_tWere the arguments of William Harvey convincing to his contemporaries? --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tHarvey: Between observation and reasoning --
_g3.
_tBlood circulation: Discovery and invention --
_g4.
_tBlood circulation: Justification and demonstration --
_g5.
_tBlood circulation: Fulfillment and acceptance --
_g6.
_tHarvey's proof as argumentation --
_tWhy was there no controversy over life in the Scientific Revolution? --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tWas life a controversial topic in early modern natural philosophy? --
_g3.
_tMachines of nature, ferments, and chemical metaphysics --
_g4.
_tConstitutive materialist ontology of life or gradual constitution of biology? --
_g5.
_tConclusion.
505 8 0 _gpt. IV.
_tHuman sciences and theology --
_tThe pre-Adamite controversy and the problem of racial difference in seventeenth-century natural phil --
_g1.
_tIntroduction --
_g2.
_tEarly modern polygenesis theory --
_g3.
_tHale's bio-geographical account of human diversity --
_g4.
_tFrançois Bernier's "New Division of the Earth" --
_g5.
_tLeibniz: Race as generational series --
_g6.
_tConclusion --
_tScientific revolution in the moral sciences: The controversy between Samuel Pufendorf and the Luther --
_g1.
_tThe controversy on the foundations of natural law --
_g2.
_tTwo eras in the history of moral doctrines --
_g3.
_tTwo eras in the history of controversy.
500 _a3. Two eras in the history of controversy.
520 _aFrom the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and reputation remained unquestioned for long. The essays collected in this book examine the rich texture of debates that comprised the Scientific Revolution from which the modern conception of science emerged. Were controversies marginal episodes, restricted to certain fields, or were they the rule in the m.
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