Isbn: 9780792355489 - the sciences in the european periphery during the enlightenment (archimedes, 2, band 2) (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. pp.xi, 224 pages, a near fine Hardback with laminated boards [0792355482].

Series: Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2. 8vo. xi, 224 pp. 5 illustrations, tables. Paper-backed boards. Near fine. ISBN: 0792355482.

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Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the several `centers' of European learning, subsequently to appear (often in considerably altered guise) in regions at the European periphery. They discuss the transfer of new scientific ideas, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. The themes that frame the discussions of the complex relationship between the origination of ideas and their reception include the ways in which the ideas of the Scientific Revolution were introduced, the particularities of their expression in each place, the specific forms of resistance encountered by these new ideas, the extent to which such expression and resistance displays national characteristics, the procedures through which new ways of dealing with nature were made legitimate, and the commonalities and differences between the methods developed by scholars for handling scientific issues.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1999 edition. 236 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Deals with the Scientific Revolution, and the resistance encountered by new concepts. The book also looks at these new scientific concepts that rose out of several "centres" of European learning, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. Editor(s): Gavroglu, Kostas. Series: Archimedes. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514. . 1999. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…