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Author: Steven Shapin Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS) ISBN: 9788449308819 Category : Philosophy Languages : es Pages : 282
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A la vez vibrante y accesible, esta introducción al tema de la revolución científica intenta poner de relieve las prácticas sociales que produjeron el conocimiento científico y los fines para los que estaba destinado. Muestra el modo en que la conducta de la ciencia emergió de una amplia variedad de programas filosóficos, compromisos políticos y creencias religiosas que ya existían al inicio de la edad moderna. Y, lejos de abordar la ciencia como un conjunto de ideas incorpóreas, se dedica a interpretar sus modos de conocer y hacer situados en un momento histórico concreto. Shapin discute las concepciones tradicionales sobre la revolución científica que la tratan como un acontecimiento coherente y definitivo alegando que ya fueron contestadas por autores de los siglos XVI y XVII. De este modo, aduce que se preconizaba el experimentalismo y simultáneamente se lo rechazaba. Aunque se alababan los métodos matemáticos, se contemplaban también con un cierto escepticismo. Por un lado, se consideraba que las concepciones mecánicas de la naturaleza definían la ciencia propiamente dicha y, por otro, se consideraban limitadas en su inteligibilidad y aplicaciones. Sin embargo, Shapin afirma que ese controvertido legado es, a pesar de todo, justamente entendido como el origen de la ciencia moderna, tanto de sus problemas como de sus logros. Se trata, pues, de un libro extraordinariamente desafiante y sofisticado en su concepción, pero también conciso y legible en su exposición: una extraordinaria fusión de sensibilidades históricas, sociológicas y filosóficas que influirá profundamente en nuestro entendimiento del conocimiento científico y su práctica.
Author: Steven Shapin Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS) ISBN: 9788449308819 Category : Philosophy Languages : es Pages : 282
Book Description
A la vez vibrante y accesible, esta introducción al tema de la revolución científica intenta poner de relieve las prácticas sociales que produjeron el conocimiento científico y los fines para los que estaba destinado. Muestra el modo en que la conducta de la ciencia emergió de una amplia variedad de programas filosóficos, compromisos políticos y creencias religiosas que ya existían al inicio de la edad moderna. Y, lejos de abordar la ciencia como un conjunto de ideas incorpóreas, se dedica a interpretar sus modos de conocer y hacer situados en un momento histórico concreto. Shapin discute las concepciones tradicionales sobre la revolución científica que la tratan como un acontecimiento coherente y definitivo alegando que ya fueron contestadas por autores de los siglos XVI y XVII. De este modo, aduce que se preconizaba el experimentalismo y simultáneamente se lo rechazaba. Aunque se alababan los métodos matemáticos, se contemplaban también con un cierto escepticismo. Por un lado, se consideraba que las concepciones mecánicas de la naturaleza definían la ciencia propiamente dicha y, por otro, se consideraban limitadas en su inteligibilidad y aplicaciones. Sin embargo, Shapin afirma que ese controvertido legado es, a pesar de todo, justamente entendido como el origen de la ciencia moderna, tanto de sus problemas como de sus logros. Se trata, pues, de un libro extraordinariamente desafiante y sofisticado en su concepción, pero también conciso y legible en su exposición: una extraordinaria fusión de sensibilidades históricas, sociológicas y filosóficas que influirá profundamente en nuestro entendimiento del conocimiento científico y su práctica.
Author: Lawrence M. Principe Publisher: ISBN: 9788420611433 Category : Science Languages : es Pages : 0
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"The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific Revolution." New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, experimentation and contemplation. Explanatory systems were made, discarded, and remade by some of the best-known names in the entire history of science, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and by many others less recognized but no less important. In this book the author explores the exciting developments in the sciences of the stars (astronomy, astrology, and cosmology), the sciences of Earth (geography, geology, hydraulics, pneumatics), the sciences of matter and motion (alchemy, chemistry, kinematics, physics), the sciences of life (medicine, anatomy, biology, zoology), and much more. The story is told from the perspective of the historical characters themselves, emphasizing their background, context, reasoning, and motivations, and dispelling well-worn myths about the history of science. Features include: New insights on developments in early modern science; Emphasizes the sociological context of the period and the world view at the time; Covers several areas of science including physics, astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, and medicine and introduces the characters and people of the time"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Hilaire Kallendorf Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004360379 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 698
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A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, “A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?” will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields. This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope without sacrificing attention to detail. Destined to become the standard go-to resource for non-specialists, this book also contains an extensive bibliography aimed at the serious researcher. Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Edward Behrend-Martínez, Cristian Berco, Harald E. Braun, Susan Byrne, Bernardo Canteñs, Frederick A. de Armas, William Eamon, Stephanie Fink, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Marya T. Green-Mercado, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, Henry Kamen, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Michael J. Levin, Ruth MacKay, Fabien Montcher, Ignacio Navarrete, Jeffrey Schrader, Lía Schwartz, Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, and Elvira Vilches.
Author: Patrick Manning Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press ISBN: 0822981483 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 376
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The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural reform. And it was during this age of revolutions—an era of rapidly expanding scientific investigation—that profound changes in scientific knowledge and practice also took place. In this volume, an esteemed group of international historians examines key elements of science in societies across Spanish America, Europe, West Africa, India, and Asia as they overlapped each other increasingly. Chapters focus on the range of participants in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, their concentrated effort in description and taxonomy, and advances in techniques for sharing knowledge. Together, contributors highlight the role of scientific change and development in tightening global and imperial connections, encouraging a deeper conversation among historians of science and world historians and shedding new light on a pivotal moment in history for both fields.
Author: Harald Ernst Braun Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004296964 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 643
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A much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. Each chapter is grounded in primary sources and the relevant historiography, includes a useful bibliography, and serves as a point of departure for future research.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004386467 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 218
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Medicine and the Inquisition offers a wide-ranging and subtle account of the role played by the Roman, Spanish and Portuguese Inquisitions in shaping medical learning and practice in the early modern world.
Author: Alessio Assonitis Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004465219 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 659
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Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarship produced in recent years, the seventeen essays in this Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici provide a fresh and systematic overview of the life and career of the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, with special emphasis on Cosimo I's education and intellectual interests, cultural policies, political vision, institutional reforms, diplomatic relations, religious beliefs, military entrepreneurship, and dynastic concerns. Contributors: Maurizio Arfaioli, Alessio Assonitis, Nicholas Scott Baker, Sheila Barker, Stefano Calonaci, Brendan Dooley, Daniele Edigati, Sheila ffolliott, Catherine Fletcher, Andrea Gáldy, Fernando Loffredo, Piergabriele Mancuso, Jessica Maratsos, Carmen Menchini, Oscar Schiavone, Marcello Simonetta, and Henk Th. van Veen.
Author: María M. Portuondo Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022659226X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 443
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In this book, historian María M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the “Spanish Disquiet”—a preoccupation with the perceived shortcomings of prevailing natural philosophies and empirical approaches when it came to explaining the natural world. Foremost among them was Benito Arias Montano—Spain’s most prominent biblical scholar and exegete of the sixteenth century. He was also a widely read member of the European intellectual community, and his motivation to reform natural philosophy shows that the Spanish Disquiet was a local manifestation of greater concerns about Aristotelian natural philosophy that were overtaking Europe on the eve of the Scientific Revolution. His approach to the study of nature framed the natural world as unfolding from a series of events described in the Book of Genesis, ultimately resulting in a new metaphysics, cosmology, physics, and even a natural history of the world. By bringing Arias Montano’s intellectual and personal biography into conversation with broader themes that inform histories of science of the era, The Spanish Disquiet ensures an appreciation of the variety and richness of Arias Montano’s thought and his influence on early modern science.
Author: Martha Few Publisher: University of Arizona Press ISBN: 0816532273 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 304
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Smallpox, measles, and typhus. The scourges of lethal disease—as threatening in colonial Mesoamerica as in other parts of the world—called for widespread efforts and enlightened attitudes to battle the centuries-old killers of children and adults. Even before edicts from Spain crossed the Atlantic, colonial elites oftentimes embraced medical experimentation and reform in the name of the public good, believing it was their moral responsibility to apply medical innovations to cure and prevent disease. Their efforts included the first inoculations and vaccinations against smallpox, new strategies to protect families and communities from typhus and measles, and medical interventions into pregnancy and childbirth. For All of Humanity examines the first public health campaigns in Guatemala, southern Mexico, and Central America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Martha Few pays close attention to Indigenous Mesoamerican medical cultures, which not only influenced the shape and scope of those regional campaigns but also affected the broader New World medical cultures. The author reconstructs a rich and complex picture of the ways colonial doctors, surgeons, Indigenous healers, midwives, priests, government officials, and ordinary people engaged in efforts to prevent and control epidemic disease. Few’s analysis weaves medical history and ethnohistory with social, cultural, and intellectual history. She uses prescriptive texts, medical correspondence, and legal documents to provide rich ethnographic descriptions of Mesoamerican medical cultures, their practitioners, and regional pharmacopeia that came into contact with colonial medicine, at times violently, during public health campaigns.
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