The science of nature in the seventeenth century: patterns of change in early modern natural philosophy

Springer Science and Business Media (2005)
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The seventeenth century marked a critical phase in the emergence of modern science. But we misunderstand this process, if we assume that seventeenth-century modes of natural inquiry were identical to the highly specialised, professionalised and ever proliferating family of modern sciences practised today.

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