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Ingenious Pursuits; Building the Scientific Revolution by Lisa Jardine - 1999
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Content: A study of European scientific advances of the 17th and early 18th centuries, which demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the interplay and frequent cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Newton, Kepler, and Wren, are show in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborate climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry botany, geography and engineering.
444 pages, notes, further reading, index.
Content: A study of European scientific advances of the 17th and early 18th centuries, which demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the interplay and frequent cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Newton, Kepler, and Wren, are show in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborate climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry botany, geography and engineering.
444 pages, notes, further reading, index.
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