Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe

by Margaret J. Osler

Book Overview

Change in human understanding of the natural world during the early modern period marks one of the most important episodes in intellectual history. This era is often referred to as the scientific revolution, but recent scholarship has challenged traditional accounts. Here, in Reconfiguring the World, Margaret J. Osler treats the development of the sciences in Europe from the early sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries as a complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080189655X
• ISBN13: 9780801896552
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Grade Range: Postsecondary