Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
by Jardine, Lisa
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0316647527
- ISBN 13
- 9780316647526
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About This Item
Little Brown and Company, 1999 8vo (23.5 cm), XX, 444 pp, plates. Laminated wrappers. "The Renaissance intellectual revolution remains one of the great unexplained events of history. What kind of upheaval was it that produced its permanent changes in our outlook and understanding? What triggered the acceleration in the growth of knowledge, such that in one century man acquired a pre-eminent ability to control nature? This work documents the forces for change which brought the human and natural sciences together and gave them shape. Each of her series of key components - among them, precise time measurement, enhanced astronomical observation, selective animal and plant breeding, and technological advances in navigation - lays a crucial part of the foundations for modern thought." (from the publisher's description)
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Lisa Jardine is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007285
- Title
- Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
- Author
- Jardine, Lisa
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0316647527
- ISBN 13
- 9780316647526
- Publisher
- Little Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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