Origins of Scientific Learning: Essays on Culture and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. This item is unavailable.Origins of Scientific Learning: Essays on Culture and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

The papers in this volume contribute to the interdisciplinary study of dramatic transformations in a wide array of human endeavors (political, artistic, literary, scientific and technological) in Early Modern Europe.

"The remarkable coverage of the essays in this volume is a testament to the broadening of Early Modern studies, and the productivity of interdisciplinary analyses of the period. The days of the history of science and medicine narrowly conceived as the internal history of ideas separated from the broader history of the period are, thankfully, past, and have been replaced by much richer conversations among historians, philosophers, literary scholars, art historians and other scholars. The increasing use of new histories of science and medicine by the broader Early Modernist community allows a fuller contextualization of art, literature and law, to take just a few of the topics presented in these pages. At the same time, new tools are brought to the analysis of scientific texts and ideas, recovering the role of women in medical debates, exposing the literary techniques of natural philosophers, and tracing the spread of "scientific" ideas and attitudes into the broader culture.... The authors here reveal the vibrancy of contemporary Early Modern studies, and the fruitfulness that methodological and disciplinary cross-fertilization yields. The essays serve as a reminder to expand one's scholarly horizons beyond the sources, methods and topics of one's own corner of history to embrace what can be learned about gender from architecture or technology from poetry." - Jonathan Seitz Instructor History and Politics Drexel University"