Succinct, well-organized, and clearly written, this is an excellent account of the intellectual transformation of our understanding of the natural world between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. -- Paula Findlen, Stanford University This book is a clear first choice for students and teachers. Incorporating cutting-edge scholarship, it matches breadth of thematic coverage with clarity of exposition and takes the reader gently but firmly through the field. -- Simon Ditchfield, University of York
Peter Dear is professor of history and science and technology studies at Cornell University.
"[Dear] throws interesting light on the changing criteria used to evaluate natural knowledge, especially the increasing emphasis on experiment... As a full and accurate account of such matters, this book is the best available, and I would recommend it to anyone."--Michael Hunter, Nature "Bibliography, index and footnotes of the booklet are exceptionally comprehensive."--Silke G?obel, Zentralblatt MATH
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