This collection brings together thirteen articles on early modern Western science, each representing an important contribution to the ways in which the scientific revolution is regarded today. The anthology features classic and prize-winning articles by renowned scholars, including "Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society," by Peter Dear; "The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory," by Robert S. Westman; "Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science," by Owen Hannaway; "Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England," by Lesley B. Cormack; and "What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution?" by Keith Hutchison.
- ISBN10 0226139468
- ISBN13 9780226139463
- Publish Date 1 October 1996
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 21 June 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 348
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780226139463