Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution - Hardcover

Jardine, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385493258 ISBN 13: 9780385493253

Publisher: Doubleday, 1999

Synopsis

The author of the critically acclaimed Worldly Goods presents a thoughtful reassessment of the Renaissance in terms of its influence on the history of science, relating the era's imaginative, artistic endeavors to the creative inspiration behind the scientific discoveries of the period. 15,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Lisa Jardine is author of the highly acclaimed Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. She is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, and Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

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o cultures of "art" and "science" have come to be treated as fundamentally opposed, their aims incompatible. In this remarkable book, Lisa Jardine makes clear that this distinction is both artificial and historically inaccurate.

The intellectual revolution of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was the single most formative event in Western history, bringing together the humanities and natural sciences in an unprecedented ferment of conceptual and practical inventiveness. Isaac Newton was as fascinated with the chemical processes involved in the transmutation of metals as he was with the movements of the planets. John Locke was as keen a physician and botanist as he was a philosopher. Christopher Wren pursued anatomical dissections and early blood transfusion with the same vigor as he did architecture.

These men--among others--opened their minds to the widest possible influences, allowing for huge and brilliant leaps of imagination, for the inge

Edition details

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385493258
• ISBN 13: 9780385493253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 444