Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically ordered case studies of knowledge construction in bot...(展开全部)

Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically ordered case studies of knowledge construction in bot...(展开全部)

An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals pub...(展开全部)

理查德•韦斯特福尔，美国著名科学史家，获耶鲁大学哲学博士学位。任印第安纳大学科学史和科学哲学史系教授，曾担任美国科学史学会会长。当选为美国艺术和科学学院院士和英国皇家文学学会会员。1985年，获美国科学史学会授予科学史工作者的最高荣誉--萨顿奖。著有：《17世纪英格兰的科学和宗教》、《近代科学的构建：机械论和力学》、《牛顿物理学中的力：17世纪的动力科学》、《永不止息——伊萨克.牛顿传》。 译者简介： 张卜天，中国科技大学物理学学士，北京大学科技哲学博士，清华大学科学史系教授，研究方向为西方中世纪和近代科学思想史。精通科学史、科学普及与哲学翻译，译有著作近五十部。其译文优美流畅，广受读者好评。

This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two major themes. The Platonic-Pythagorean tradition looked on nature in geometric terms with the conviction that the cosmos was constructed according to the principles of mathematical order, while the mechanical philosophy conc...(展开全部)

Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically ordered case studies of knowledge construction in bot...(展开全部)

罗伊·波特 英国社会科学院院士，医学社会史、医学文化史研究先驱。编著著作百余部，代表作包括《剑桥社会史》《剑桥科学史》《血与胆：疾病与医学的故事》《启蒙运动》等。 译者：欧阳瑾 毕业于北京语言大学，现专职译者。出版《中世纪的女巫》《中世纪厨房》《拯救不列颠》《瓦尔登湖》《海明威中短篇小说精选》等多部译著。

In this historical tour de force, now available in B-format paperback, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body, and that such ideas were mapped onto an...(展开全部)

In this historical tour de force, now available in B-format paperback, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body, and that such ideas were mapped onto an...(展开全部)

罗伊·波特 英国社会科学院院士，医学社会史、医学文化史研究先驱。编著著作百余部，代表作包括《剑桥社会史》《剑桥科学史》《血与胆：疾病与医学的故事》《启蒙运动》等。 译者：欧阳瑾 毕业于北京语言大学，现专职译者。出版《中世纪的女巫》《中世纪厨房》《拯救不列颠》《瓦尔登湖》《海明威中短篇小说精选》等多部译著。