The scientific revolution
Steven Shapin (Author)
"In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a "revolution" ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it's experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements"
eBook, English, 2018
Second edition View all formats and editions
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2018
History
1 online resource (256 pages)
9780226398488, 022639848X
1090421840
Introduction
What was known?
How was it known?
What was the knowledge for?