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发表于2024-11-23
Reconfiguring the World pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the World, Margaret J. Osler treats the development of the sciences in Europe from the early sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries as a complex and multifaceted process. The worldview embedded in modern science is a relatively recent development. Osler aims to convey a nuanced understanding of how the natural world looked to early modern thinkers such as Galileo, Descartes, Boyle, and Newton. She describes investigation and understanding of the natural world in terms that the thinkers themselves would have used. Tracing the views of the natural world to their biblical, Greek, and Arabic sources, Osler demonstrates the impact of the Renaissance recovery of ancient texts, printing, the Protestant Reformation, and the exploration of the New World. She shows how the traditional disciplinary boundaries established by Aristotle changed dramatically during this period and finds the tensions of science and religion expressed as differences between natural philosophy and theology. Far from a triumphalist account, Osler's story includes false starts and dead ends. Ultimately, she shows how a few gifted students of nature changed the way we see ourselves and the universe.
Margaret J. Osler is a professor of history at the University of Calgary.
亚里士多德的一整套三观,中世纪之后的文艺复兴时期,渐渐崩坏,物理学、化学、生理学、光学、数学、天文学、博物学,从天上到地上,从粒子到身体,从思辨到实验,原先的根基被替换,“终极”的标准是经验与实验,然后现实验证这经验和实验,人则跟着验证后的结果调整自己,改...
评分一样是从哥白尼、开普勒、伽利略、波义耳到牛顿,本书是从数学与物理的学科分类演变的角度,虽然数学变成一种用来描述物理实在的语言,改变了亚里士多德对世界的认识,扩大了知识的范围。 但是作者认为直到牛顿仍然是继承了对古代知识(古代几何和古代智慧)的信念,甚至是对上...
评分 评分一样是从哥白尼、开普勒、伽利略、波义耳到牛顿,本书是从数学与物理的学科分类演变的角度,虽然数学变成一种用来描述物理实在的语言,改变了亚里士多德对世界的认识,扩大了知识的范围。 但是作者认为直到牛顿仍然是继承了对古代知识(古代几何和古代智慧)的信念,甚至是对上...
评分Reconfiguring the World pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024