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1 online resource (294 pages). |
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Controversies (CVS) ; v. 11
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Controversies ; v. 11.
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Introduction: Controversies and the dialectical texture of the Scientific Revolution -- pt. I. Astronomy and mechanics -- Honoré Fabri S. J. and Galileo's law of fall: What kind of controversy? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Emergence of Fabri's theory of free fall -- 3. Fabri's argument in context -- Galileo, the Jesuits, and the controversy over the comets -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Arguments -- 3. Assayer -- 4. Price: Back to Aristotelianism -- 5. Rival: The Jesuits' mild instrumentalism -- 6. Supremacy of the instrument -- 7. Radical instrumentalism -- Fair-mindedness versus sophistry in the Galileo affair -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Antonio Querenghi -- 3. Querenghi's reports on Galileo in Rome in 1615-1616 -- 4. Misinterpretations of Querenghi's reports -- 5. More careful critical analysis of Querenghi's reports -- 6. Deeper analysis of Querenghi's key point: Fair-mindedness -- 7. Galileo's reflective formulation of the fairness principle -- 8. Galileo's fair-minded practice: Venus objection -- 9. Galileo's fair-minded practice: Extrusion objection -- 10. Recapitulation and next step -- 11. Strengthening the sophistry objection vs. Galileo -- 12. Additional strengthening of the sophistry objection -- 13. Conclusion. |
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pt. II. Light and gravity -- From cohesion to pesanteur: The origins of the 1669 debate on the causes of gravity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Causes of gravity -- 3. Newtonian context: Forces, big and small -- 4. Causes of coagulation: Chymistry and mechanism -- 5. Conclusion -- Leibniz versus Newton on the nature of gravity and planetary motion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two competing theories -- 3. Natural versus miraculous -- 4. Methodology and the role of hypotheses -- 5. Conclusion -- Argumentative use of methodology: Lessons from a controversy following Newton's first optical paper -- 1. Scientific debates and the emergence of modern science -- 2. A brief overview of the controversy and its historiography -- 3. Methodology of reconstruction and the position of the protagonist -- 4. Understanding the position of the historian -- 5. Natural, the social, and the argumentative -- 6. How to read charitably -- 7. Consequences of 'radical dialectification' -- 8. Conclusions. |
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pt. III. Physiology and vitalism -- Salient theories in the fossil debate in the early Royal Society -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Context -- 3. Martin Lister and his theory of fossils: A refutation of Helmont -- 4. Robert Plot and fossilisation -- 5. Conclusion -- Were the arguments of William Harvey convincing to his contemporaries? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Harvey: Between observation and reasoning -- 3. Blood circulation: Discovery and invention -- 4. Blood circulation: Justification and demonstration -- 5. Blood circulation: Fulfillment and acceptance -- 6. Harvey's proof as argumentation -- Why was there no controversy over life in the Scientific Revolution? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Was life a controversial topic in early modern natural philosophy? -- 3. Machines of nature, ferments, and chemical metaphysics -- 4. Constitutive materialist ontology of life or gradual constitution of biology? -- 5. Conclusion. |
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pt. IV. Human sciences and theology -- Pre-Adamite controversy and the problem of racial difference in seventeenth-century natural phil -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Early modern polygenesis theory -- 3. Hale's bio-geographical account of human diversity -- 4. François Bernier's "New Division of the Earth" -- 5. Leibniz: Race as generational series -- 6. Conclusion -- Scientific revolution in the moral sciences: The controversy between Samuel Pufendorf and the Luther -- 1. Controversy on the foundations of natural law -- 2. Two eras in the history of moral doctrines -- 3. Two eras in the history of controversy. |
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3. Two eras in the history of controversy. |
| Summary |
From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and reputation remained unquestioned for long. The essays collected in this book examine the rich texture of debates that comprised the Scientific Revolution from which the modern conception of science emerged. Were controversies marginal episodes, restricted to certain fields, or were they the rule in the m. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Science, Renaissance.
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Science, Renaissance. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. |
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Electronic books.
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Boantza, Victor D.
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Print version: Dascal, Marcelo. Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2011 9789027218957 |
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9789027282545 (electronic book) |
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9027282544 (electronic book) |
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9789027218957 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9027218951 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9786613359957 |
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