List of Illustrations |
Notes on Contributors |
General Editors' Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction: The Age of the New / Katharine Park ; Lorraine Daston1: |
The New Nature / Part I: |
Physics and Foundations / Daniel Garber2: |
Foundations |
The Aristotelian Framework |
Renaissance Anti-Aristotelianisms: Chymical Philosophies |
Renaissance Anti-Aristotelianisms: The Italian Naturalists |
Renaissance Anti-Aristotelianisms: Mathematical Order and Harmony |
The Rise of the Mechanical and Corpuscular Philosophy |
The Mechanical Philosophy: Theories of Matter |
The Mechanical Philosophy: Space, Void, and Motion |
The Mechanical Philosophy: Spirit, Force, and Activity |
The Mechanical Philosophy: God and Final Causes |
Beyond the Mechanical Philosophy: Newton |
Conclusion: Beyond Foundations |
Scientific Explanation from Formal Causes to Laws of Nature / Lynn S. Joy3: |
Three Notable Changes in Early Modern Scientific Explanations |
Causality in the Aristotelian Tradition |
God as a Final Cause and the Emergence of Laws of Nature |
Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Efficient Causes among the Aristotelian Reformers |
Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Efficient Causes among the Corpuscular Physicists |
Active and Passive Principles as a Model for Cause and Effect |
The Meanings of Experience / Peter Dear4: |
Experience and the Natural Philosophy of Aristotle in Early Modern Europe |
Experiences of Life and Health |
Experience and Natural History: Individuals, Species, and Taxonomy |
Experience and the Mathematical Sciences |
Event Experiments and "Physico-mathematics" |
Newtonian Experience |
Conclusion |
Proof and Persuasion / R. W. Serjeantson5: |
Disciplinary Decorum |
Theories of Proof and Persuasion |
Disciplinary Reconfigurations |
Mathematical Traditions |
Experiment |
Probability and Certainty |
Proof and Persuasion in the Printed Book |
Proof, Persuasion, and Social Institutions |
Personae and Sites of Natural Knowledge / Part II: |
The Man of Science / Steven Shapin6: |
The University Scholar |
The Medical Man |
The Gentleman |
Women of Natural Knowledge / Londa Schiebinger7: |
Learned Elites |
Artisans |
Colonial Connections |
Markets, Piazzas, and Villages / William Eamon8: |
Markets and Shops |
Natural Knowledge in the Piazza |
Natural Knowledge in the Countryside and Villages |
Conclusion: Popular Culture and the New Philosophy |
Homes and Households / Alix Cooper9: |
Domestic Spaces |
Natural Inquiry as a Family Project |
Dividing Labor in the Scientific Household |
Libraries and Lecture Halls / Anthony Grafton10: |
The Classroom |
The Library |
Courts and Academies / Bruce T. Moran11: |
Science at Court |
Cabinets and Workshops |
From Court to Academy |
Anatomy Theaters, Botanical Gardens, and Natural History Collections / Paula Findlen12: |
Anatomizing |
Botanizing |
Collecting |
Laboratories / Pamela H. Smith13: |
Theory and Practice |
Toward a New Epistemology |
Evolution of Laboratory Spaces |
Experiment in the Laboratory |
Academic Institutionalization of the Laboratory |
Sites of Military Science and Technology / Kelly Devries14: |
Offensive Technologies: Gunpowder and Guns |
Defensive Technologies: Armor and Fortification |
Courtly Engineers and Gentleman Practitioners |
Coffeehouses and Print Shops / Adrian Johns15: |
Print |
Coffee |
Audiences and Arguments |
Networks of Travel, Correspondence, and Exchange / Steven J. Harris16: |
The Expanding Horizon of Scientific Engagement |
The Metrics of Scientific Practice |
Correspondence Networks, Long-Distance Travel, and Printing |
Virtual Spaces and Their Extension |
Dividing the Study of Nature / Part III: |
Natural Philosophy / Ann Blair17: |
The University Context of Natural Philosophy |
Aristotelianism and the Innovations of the Renaissance |
The Impact of the Reformations and Religious Concerns |
New Observations and Practices |
Resistance to Radical Innovation |
Forces for Change in the Seventeenth Century |
The Origins of the Mechanical Philosophy |
The Transformation of Natural Philosophy by Empirical and Mathematical Methods |
The Social Conventions of the New Natural Philosophy |
Medicine / Harold J. Cook18: |
The Science of Physic |
New Worlds, New Diseases, New Remedies |
Toward Materialism |
Natural History / 19: |
The Revival of an Ancient Tradition |
Words and Things |
Things Without Names |
Sharing Information |
The Emergence of the Naturalist |
Cosmography / Klaus A. Vogel20: |
Cosmography before 1490 |
Globus mundi: Discoveries at Sea and the Cosmographic Revolution (1490-1510) |
Cosmographia universalis: Cosmography as a Leading Science (1510-1600) |
Geographia generalis: Toward a Science of Description and Measurement (1600-1700) |
Experience and Progress: Contemporary Views of the Emergence of Geography |
From Alchemy to "Chymistry" / William R. Newman21: |
The Early Sixteenth Century |
Paracelsus |
Reaction to and Influence of Paracelsus |
Transmutation and Matter Theory |
Schools of Thought in Early Modern Chymistry |
Magic / Brian P. Copenhaver22: |
Agrippa's Magic Manual |
The Credibility of Magic: Text, Image, and Experience |
Magic on Trial |
Virtues Dormitive and Visual |
Magic Out of Sight |
Astrology / H. Darrel Rutkin23: |
Astrology circa 1500: Intellectual and Institutional Structures |
Astrological Reforms |
The Fate of Astrology |
The Eighteenth Century and Beyond |
Astronomy / William Donahue24: |
Astronomical Education in the Early Sixteenth Century |
Renaissance Humanism and renovatio |
Cracks in the Structure of Learning |
The Reformation and the Status of Astronomy |
Kepler's Revolution |
Galileo |
Descartes' Cosmology |
The Situation circa 1650: The Reception of Kepler, Galileo, and Descartes |
Novae, Variable Stars, and the Development of Stellar Astronomy |
Newton |
Acoustics and Optics / Paolo Mancosu25: |
Music Theory and Acoustics in the Early Modern Period |
The Sixteenth Century: Pythagorean and Aristoxenian Traditions |
The Birth of Acoustics in the Early Seventeenth Century |
Developments in Acoustics in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century |
Optics in the Early Modern Period: An Overview |
Optics in the Sixteenth Century |
Kepler's Contributions to Optics |
Refraction and Diffraction |
Geometrical Optics and Image Location |
The Nature of Light and Its Speed |
Newton's Theory of Light and Colors |
Mechanics / Domenico Bertoloni Meli26: |
Mechanical Traditions |
Studies on Motion |
Motion and Mechanics in the Sixteenth Century |
Reading Galileo: From Torricelli to Mersenne |
Descartes' Mechanical Philosophy and Mechanics |
Reading Descartes and Galileo: Huygens and the Age of Academies |
Newton and a New World System |
Reading Newton and Descartes: Leibniz and His School |
The Mechanical Arts / Jim Bennett27: |
The Mechanical Arts in 1500 |
Clocks and Other Celestial Instruments |
Mathematical and Optical Instruments |
Navigation, Surveying, Warfare, and Cartography |
Art and Nature |
Pure Mathematics / Kirsti Andersen ; Henk J. M. Bos28: |
The Social Context |
Stimuli: Methods and Problems |
The Inherited Algebra and an Inherited Challenge |
The Reception of Euclid's Elements |
The Response to Advanced Greek Mathematics: The Apollonian, Archimedean, and Diophantine Traditions |
The Merging of Algebra and Geometry |
The Calculus |
Conclusion: Modernity and Context |
Cultural Meanings of Natural Knowledge / Part IV: |
Religion / Rivka Feldhay29: |
Theological and Intellectual Contexts: Sacred Message and Bodies of Knowledge |
Religious Identities and Educational Reforms |
From Copernicus to Galileo: Scientific Objects, Boundaries, and Authority |
Authorization and Legitimation: Science, Religion, and Politics in the Seventeenth Century |
Literature / Mary Baine Campbell30: |
Language |
Telescope, Microscope, and Realism |
Plurality of Worlds: From Astronomy to Sociology |
Geography, Ethnography, Fiction, and the World of Others |
Antagonisms |
Art / Carmen Niekrasz ; Claudia Swan31: |
Naturalism |
Scientific Illustration |
Anatomy Lessons |
The Artist as Scientist |
Scientific Naturalism |
Gender / Dorinda Outram32: |
Sex and Gender Difference in the Early Modern Period |
The Problem of Nature |
European Expansion and Self-Definition / 33: |
Natural Knowledge and Colonial Science: Colleges of Higher Education and the Real y Pontificia Universidad de Mexico (1553) |
Natural Knowledge and the Christian Mission: The Jesuits in Japan and China |
Natural Knowledge in European Self-Definition and Hegemony |
Index |