How Modern Science Came into the World
Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket — so often events and contexts...
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| description | Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket — so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Floris Cohen now comes up with precisely such a replacement. Key to his path-breaking analysis-cum-narrative is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct yet narrowly interconnected, revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five to thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world. It also enables him to explain how half-way into the 17th century a vast crisis of legitimacy could arise and, in the end, be overcome. Building forth on his earlier The Scientific Revolution. A Historiographical Inquiry (1994), his new book takes the latest researches duly into account, while connecting these in highly innovative ways. It is meant throughout as a constructive effort to break up all-too-deeply frozen patterns of thinking about the history of science. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1684862025-10-24T05:07:51Z How Modern Science Came into the World Cohen, Floris Traditional Society Greek Foundations Chinese Contrasts Rare Efforts Chinese Knowledge Scientific Revolution Islamic Civilization Medieval Europe Mathematical Science Third Transformation thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket — so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Floris Cohen now comes up with precisely such a replacement. Key to his path-breaking analysis-cum-narrative is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct yet narrowly interconnected, revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five to thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world. It also enables him to explain how half-way into the 17th century a vast crisis of legitimacy could arise and, in the end, be overcome. Building forth on his earlier The Scientific Revolution. A Historiographical Inquiry (1994), his new book takes the latest researches duly into account, while connecting these in highly innovative ways. It is meant throughout as a constructive effort to break up all-too-deeply frozen patterns of thinking about the history of science. 2025-10-24T05:07:50Z 2025-10-24T05:07:50Z 2025-10-23T08:19:34Z 2025 book ONIX_20251023T101257_9781040777381_56 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107786 9781040777381 9781041181057 9781040792063 9781003697534 9789089642394 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168486 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107786/1/9781040777381.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003697534 10.4324/9781003697534 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040777381 9781041181057 9781040792063 9781003697534 9789089642394 Routledge 824 Oxford open access |
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