Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield: A preliminary sketch / David C. Lindberg
  • Conceptions of science in the scientific revolution / Erman McMullin
  • Metaphysics and the new science / Gary Hatfield
  • Proof, poetics, and patronage: Copernicus's preface to De Revolutionibus / Robert S. Westman
  • A Reappraisal of the role of the universities in the scientific revolution / John Gascoigne
  • Natural magic, hermetism, and occultism in early modern science / Brian P. Copenhaver
  • Natural history and the emblematic world view / William B. Ashworth
  • From the secrets of nature to public knowledge / William Eamon
  • Chemistry in the scientific revolution : Problems of language and communication / Jan V. Golinski
  • The new philosophy and medicine in seventeenth-century England / Harold J. Cook
  • Science and heterodoxy : An early modern problem reconsidered / Michael Hunter
  • Infinitesimals and transcendent relations : The mathematics of motion in the seventeenth century / Michael S. Mahoney
  • The case of mechanics: One revolution or many? / Alan Gabbey