"Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all t

A collection of cutting-edge scholarship on the close interaction of philosophy with science at the birth of the modern age.

A comprehensive and authoritative guide to developments in life and earth sciences since 1800.

This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirk

"Here is a well-known story. Before sometime in the early modern period, Europeans believed that knowledge of nature came solely from reading books, above all t