El compás, la lanceta y el crisol: retratos de la naturaleza durante el nacimiento de la ciencia moderna
Nowadays history of science rejects the old view that presents conquests as the guide to the analysis of past science. Specifically, historians of early modern science have been affected by an increasing specialization which has altered the kind of investigations they undertake. Indeed, specialists...
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1999
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| Summary: | Nowadays history of science rejects the old view that presents conquests as the guide to the analysis of past science. Specifically, historians of early modern science have been affected by an increasing specialization which has altered the kind of investigations they undertake. Indeed, specialists focus on subjects or names previously ignored, and look to the sociology of knowledge, the intellectual history, as well as the cultural context. This study of the cultural context is only a dimension of a growing trend to consider neglected questions that have been overlooked because they did not fit into the former historiographical standards.
In my paper, I try to show -just attending internal history- that many classical works give us a picture of the Scientific Revolution fully inconsistent with recent developments. |
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