How Modern Science Came into the World : Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough / Floris Cohen.

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Prologue. Solving the problem of the scientific revolution -- Part I. Nature-Knowledge in Traditional Society -- I. Greek foundations, Chinese contrasts -- II. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted: the Islamic world -- III. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted in part: medieval Europe -- IV. Greek nature-knowledge transplanted, and more: renaissance Europe -- Part II. Three revolutionary transformations -- V. The first transformation: realist-mathematical science -- VI. The second transformation: a kinetic-corpuscularian philosophy of nature -- VII. The third transformation: to find facts through experiment -- VIII. Concurrence explained -- IX. Prospects around 1640 -- Part III. Dynamics of the Revolution -- X. Achievements and limitations of realist-mathematical science -- XI. Achievements and limitations of kinetic corpuscularianism -- XII. Legitimacy in the balance -- XIII. Achievements and limitations of fact-finding experimentalism -- XIV. Nature-knowledge decompartmentalized -- XV. The fourth transformation: corpuscular motion geometrized -- XVI. The fifth transformation: the baconian brew -- XVII. Legitimacy of a new kind -- XVIII. Nature-knowledge by 1684: the achievement so far -- XIX. The sixth transformation: the newtonian synthesis -- Epilogue: A dual legacy -- Endnotes -- Name Index -- Subject Index

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Once, the concept of 'the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was innovative and inspiring, yielding what is still the master narrative of the rise of modern science. That narrative, however, has turned into a straitjacket-so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. Even so, in Floris Cohen's view neither the early, theory-centered historiography nor present-day contextual and practice-oriented approaches compel us to drop the concept altogether. Instead, he offers here a narrative restructured from the ground up, by means of a comprehensive approach, sustained comparisons, and a tenacious search for underlying patterns. Key to his analysis is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct, yet tightly 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.'

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