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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The mechanical philosophy first emerged as a leading player on the intellectual scene in the early modern period—seeking to explain all natural phenomena through the physics of matter and motion—and the term mechanism was coined. Over time, natural phenomena came to be understood through machine analogies and explanations and the very word mechanism, a suggestive and ambiguous expression, took on a host of different meanings. Emphasizing the important role of key ancient and early modern protagonists, from Galen to Robert Boyle, this book offers a historical investigation of the term mechanism from the late Renaissance to the end of the seventeenth century, at a time when it was used rather frequently in complex debates about the nature of the notion of the soul. In this rich and detailed study, Domenico Bertoloni Melifocuses on strategies for discussing the notion of mechanism in historically sensitive ways; the relation between mechanism, visual representation, and anatomy; the usage and meaning of the term in early modern times; and Marcello Malpighi and the problems of fecundation and generation, among the most challenging topics to investigate from a mechanistic standpoint."

--- Based on the lectures AEO tried to get me to go to (which I passed on because I didn't realize that was her idea of asking me on a date...)

JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvfxvbwb
Review: http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2021-12.html#mechanism]]></description>
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    <title>Project MUSE - Science and Justice: The Massachusetts Witchcraft Trials (1968)</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["f the twentieth century saw the rise of “Big Science,” then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett’s new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as they recycled, repurposed, repaired, and reused their material possessions to learn about the natural world.
"Thrifty Science explores this distinctive culture of experiment and demonstrates how the values of the household helped to shape an array of experimental inquiries, ranging from esoteric investigations of glowworms and sour beer to famous experiments such as Benjamin Franklin’s use of a kite to show lightning was electrical and Isaac Newton’s investigations of color using prisms. Tracing the diverse ways that men and women put their material possessions into the service of experiment, Werrett offers a history of practices of recycling and repurposing that are often assumed to be more recent in origin. This thriving domestic culture of inquiry was eclipsed by new forms of experimental culture in the nineteenth century, however, culminating in the resource-hungry science of the twentieth. Could thrifty science be making a comeback today, as scientists grapple with the need to make their research more environmentally sustainable?"]]></description>
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--- Potentially interesting, if I can handle seeing a citation to Wallerstein in every paragraph.  (I exaggerate, a bit.)]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper defends a version of J. H. Randall’s thesis that modern empiricism is rooted in the Scholastic regressus method epitomized by Jacopo Zabarella in De Regressu (1578). Randall’s critics note that the empirical practice of Galileo and his contemporaries does not follow Zabarella. However, Zabarella’s account of the regressus is imprecise, which permitted an interpretation introducing empirical hypothesis testing into the framework. The discourse surrounding Galileo’s lunar observations in Sidereus Nuncius (1610) suggests that both Galileo and his interlocutors amended the regressus method in this way, such that a developmental narrative links Scholastic logic to Galilean science."]]></description>
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"In The Young Descartes, Harold J. Cook tells the story of a man who did not set out to become an author or philosopher—Descartes began publishing only after the age of forty. Rather, for years he traveled throughout Europe in diplomacy and at war. He was present at the opening events of the Thirty Years' War in Central Europe and Northern Italy, and was also later involved in struggles within France. Enduring exile, scandals, and courtly intrigue, on his journeys Descartes associated with many of the most innovative free thinkers and poets of his day, as well as great noblemen, noblewomen, and charismatic religious reformers. In his personal life, he expressed love for men as well as women and was accused of libertinism by his adversaries.
"These early years on the move, in touch with powerful people and great events, and his experiences with military engineering and philosophical materialism all shaped the thinker and philosopher Descartes became in exile, where he would begin to write and publish, with purpose. But though it is these writings that made ultimately made him famous, The Young Descartes shows that this story of his early life and the tumultuous times that molded him is sure to spark a reappraisal of his philosophy and legacy."]]></description>
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"The Great Rift is the first book to examine the religion-science divide through the history of information technology. Hobart follows numeracy as it emerged from the practical counting systems of merchants, the abstract notations of musicians, the linear perspective of artists, and the calendars and clocks of astronomers. As the technology of the alphabet and of mere counting gave way to abstract symbols, the earlier “thing-mathematics” metamorphosed into the relational mathematics of modern scientific investigation. Using these new information symbols, Galileo and his contemporaries mathematized motion and matter, separating the demonstrations of science from the linguistic logic of religious narration.
"Hobart locates the great rift between science and religion not in ideological disagreement but in advances in mathematics and symbolic representation that opened new windows onto nature. In so doing, he connects the cognitive breakthroughs of the past with intellectual debates ongoing in the twenty-first century."]]></description>
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"Breaking from previous scholarship that sees Johannes Kepler as the culmination of a long-evolving optical tradition that traced back to Greek antiquity via the Muslim Middle Ages, Smith presents Kepler instead as marking a rupture with this tradition, arguing that his theory of retinal imaging, which was published in 1604, was instrumental in prompting the turn from sight to light. Kepler’s new theory of sight, Smith reveals, thus takes on true historical significance: by treating the eye as a mere light-focusing device rather than an image-producing instrument—as traditionally understood—Kepler’s account of retinal imaging helped spur the shift in analytic focus that eventually led to modern optics. 
"A sweeping survey, From Sight to Light is poised to become the standard reference for historians of optics as well as those interested more broadly in the history of science, the history of art, and cultural and intellectual history."]]></description>
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    <title>About Method: Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically, Schickore</title>
    <dc:date>2017-06-07T19:53:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo25793826</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scientists’ views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at different times, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results emerged, and the meaning of commitment to experimentation altered. In About Method, Schickore captures this complex trajectory of change from 1660 to the twentieth century through the history of snake venom research. As experiments with poisonous snakes and venom were both challenging and controversial, the experimenters produced very detailed accounts of their investigations, which go back three hundred years—making venom research uniquely suited for such a long-term study. By analyzing key episodes in the transformation of venom research, Schickore is able to draw out the factors that have shaped methods discourse in science.
"About Method shows that methodological advancement throughout history has not been simply a steady progression toward better, more sophisticated and improved methodologies of experimentation. Rather, it was a progression in awareness of the obstacles and limitations that scientists face in developing strategies to probe the myriad unknown complexities of nature. The first long-term history of this development and of snake venom research, About Method offers a major contribution to integrated history and philosophy of science."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2016-17/01-27-17_paolo/paolofest.html">
    <title>Center for Philosophy of Science ::: other conferences ::: Hermes and the Telescope: Author Meets Critics</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-07T14:39:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2016-17/01-27-17_paolo/paolofest.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A workshop on Paolo Palmieri’s just published book, Hermes and the Telescope: In the Crucible of Galileo's Life-World.
"The life and work of Galileo have stirred debates and controversies in history and philosophy of science concerning the origin and motivation of the emergence of modern science. Paolo Palmieri’s new book calls into question the positivist myth of Galileo, the founder of modern science, and interrogates the historiography that has shaped the myth since the historic publication of the monumental edition of Galileo’s works at the turn of the twentieth century.
"The book highlights the entanglement of Galileo’s natural philosophy with his private unorthodox convictions about Christian theology, Biblical hermeneutic, sexuality, and the hidden traditions of Italian heretics and libertines. Furthermore, the book articulates the philosophical, pedagogical and political implications of this new reading of one of the founding fathers of modernity for both the sciences and the humanities."]]></description>
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    <title>The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue, Jones</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-06T17:12:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo3793367.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Amid the unrest, dislocation, and uncertainty of seventeenth-century Europe, readers seeking consolation and assurance turned to philosophical and scientific books that offered ways of conquering fears and training the mind—guidance for living a good life.
"The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution presents a triptych showing how three key early modern scientists, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz, envisioned their new work as useful for cultivating virtue and for pursuing a good life. Their scientific and philosophical innovations stemmed in part from their understanding of mathematics and science as cognitive and spiritual exercises that could create a truer mental and spiritual nobility.  In portraying the rich contexts surrounding Descartes’ geometry, Pascal’s arithmetical triangle, and Leibniz’s calculus, Matthew L. Jones argues that this drive for moral therapeutics guided important developments of early modern philosophy and the Scientific Revolution."

--- No Bacon?  No Spinoza?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/reading-galileo">
    <title>Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and _Two New Sciences_</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-06T16:19:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/reading-galileo</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became the foundations of mechanical engineering and physics, this book is often depicted as the definitive expression of Galileo’s purportedly modern scientific agenda. In Reading Galileo, Renée Raphael offers a new interpretation of Two New Sciences which argues instead that the work embodied no such coherent canonical vision. Raphael alleges that it was written—and originally read—as the eclectic product of the types of discursive textual analysis and meandering descriptive practices Galileo professed to reject in favor of more qualitative scholarship.
"Focusing on annotations period readers left in the margins of extant copies and on the notes and teaching materials of seventeenth-century university professors whose lessons were influenced by Galileo’s text, Raphael explores the ways in which a range of early-modern readers, from ordinary natural philosophers to well-known savants, responded to Galileo. She highlights the contrast between the practices of Galileo’s actual readers, who followed more traditional, "bookish" scholarly methods, and their image, constructed by Galileo and later historians, as "modern" mathematical experimenters.
"Two New Sciences has not previously been the subject of such rigorous attention and analysis. Reading Galileo considerably changes our understanding of Galileo’s important work while offering a well-executed case study in the reception of an early-modern scientific classic. This important text will be of interest to a wide range of historians—of science, of scholarly practices and the book, and of early-modern intellectual and cultural history."

--- This hardly seems like a contradiction.  Surely it's _possible_ both that Galileo intended his book in a "modern" way, and that many people read it in a much older fashion?]]></description>
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    <title>Reconfiguring the World</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-30T12:53:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/reconfiguring-world</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["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 and multifaceted process.
"The worldview embedded in modern science is a relatively recent development. Osler aims to convey a nuanced understanding of how the natural world looked to early modern thinkers such as Galileo, Descartes, Boyle, and Newton. She describes investigation and understanding of the natural world in terms that the thinkers themselves would have used. Tracing the views of the natural world to their biblical, Greek, and Arabic sources, Osler demonstrates the impact of the Renaissance recovery of ancient texts, printing, the Protestant Reformation, and the exploration of the New World. She shows how the traditional disciplinary boundaries established by Aristotle changed dramatically during this period and finds the tensions of science and religion expressed as differences between natural philosophy and theology.
"Far from a triumphalist account, Osler’s story includes false starts and dead ends. Ultimately, she shows how a few gifted students of nature changed the way we see ourselves and the universe."]]></description>
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    <title>The Rise of Modern Science Explained | History Science and Technology | Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-29T17:01:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Bacon and many others gave revolutionary new twists to traditional ideas and practices, culminating in the work of Isaac Newton half a century later. It was as if the world was being created anew. But why did this recreation begin in Europe rather than elsewhere? This book caps H. Floris Cohen's career-long effort to find answers to this classic question. Here he sets forth a rich but highly accessible account of what, against many odds, made it happen and why."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674504233">
    <title>Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy — Meredith K. Ray | Harvard University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2015-06-09T14:14:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674504233</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In academies, salons, and correspondence, they debated cosmological discoveries; in their literary production, they used their knowledge of natural philosophy to argue for their intellectual equality to men.
"Meredith Ray restores the work of these women to our understanding of early modern scientific culture. Her study begins with Caterina Sforza’s alchemical recipes; examines the sixteenth-century vogue for “books of secrets”; and looks at narratives of science in works by Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella. It concludes with Camilla Erculiani’s letters on natural philosophy and, finally, Margherita Sarrocchi’s defense of Galileo’s “Medicean” stars.
"Combining literary and cultural analysis, Daughters of Alchemy contributes to the emerging scholarship on the variegated nature of scientific practice in the early modern era. Drawing on a range of under-studied material including new analyses of the Sarrocchi–Galileo correspondence and a previously unavailable manuscript of Sforza’s Experimenti, Ray’s book rethinks early modern science, properly reintroducing the integral and essential work of women."]]></description>
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    <title>Baroque Science, Gal, Chen-Morris</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-30T04:38:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo14365153</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Gal and Chen-Morris show how scientists during the seventeenth century turned away from the trust in the acquisition of knowledge through the senses towards a growing reliance on the mediation of artificial instruments, such as lenses and mirrors for observation and mechanical and pneumatic devices for experimentation. Likewise, the mathematical techniques and procedures that allowed the success of mathematical natural philosophy turned increasingly obscure and artificial, and in place of divine harmonies they revealed an assemblage of isolated, contingent laws and constants."]]></description>
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    <title>Galileo's Credo | The Nation</title>
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    <title>Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition, Corneanu</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-04T16:49:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/detail.html?bookId=bo12120802</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["a new approach to the epistemological and methodological doctrines of the leading experimental philosophers of seventeenth-century England, an approach that considers their often overlooked moral, psychological, and theological elements. Corneanu focuses on the views about the pursuit of knowledge in the writings of Robert Boyle and John Locke, as well as in those of several of their influences, including Francis Bacon and the early Royal Society virtuosi. She argues that their experimental programs of inquiry fulfill the role of regimens for curing, ordering, and educating the mind toward an ethical purpose, an idea she tracks back to the ancient tradition of cultura animi. "]]></description>
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    <title>&quot;Curiouser and Curiouser&quot; » American Scientist</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Curiosity plays a key explanatory role in this book, but, curiously, Huff makes no attempt to explore what early modern Europeans thought about the subject. Historians Hans Blumenberg and Lorraine Daston have traced how, in the late Middle Ages, Europeans took a new view of curiosity: By transforming it from the vice of inquisitiveness into a cognitive virtue, they legitimated scientific inquiry. Unfortunately, Huff does not draw on the work of Blumenberg and Daston. Instead of tracing changes in what curiosity has meant, he assumes it has always been the same thing, and that Europeans just happened to have a surfeit of it, whereas others had a deficit. His attempt to establish this point, though, is flawed: Huff identifies things about which Europeans were curious, and then shows that Chinese and Muslim scholars were not equally curious about the same things. Because India had astronomers, Huff writes, “we can assume” that they would find the telescope “of intrinsic interest”—but he does not explain why that would be the case. Because of this methodological asymmetry, he misses areas in which non-Europeans demonstrated that they were quite capable of curious investigation—natural history, for example.

But Huff is not interested in what non-Europeans were curious about, because it was not modern science. In his account, the “breakthrough” or “march to the modern scientific revolution” appears inevitable. Despite occasional wrong turns onto “garden paths,” European scientists by and large made “progress” toward goals that they could not “resist.” Because Huff sees modern science as the inevitable result of curiosity, he assumes that other sophisticated cultures must have lacked it. The “discovery machine” was like a lighted match tossed into a powder keg; if it fizzled out for Chinese and Islamic scholars, that must have been because their intellectual powder was damp."]]></description>
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    <title>How Modern Science Came into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough, Cohen</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-04T18:39:49+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The Copernican Question : Robert S. Westman - University of California Press</title>
    <dc:date>2011-07-28T12:51:11+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just as Copernicus arrived in 1496. Copernicus engendered enormous resistance when he sought to protect astrology by reconstituting its astronomical foundations. Robert S. Westman shows that efforts to answer the astrological skeptics became a crucial unifying theme of the early modern scientific movement. His interpretation of this "long sixteenth century," from the 1490s to the 1610s, offers a new framework for understanding the great transformations in natural philosophy in the century that followed."
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    <title>The Uses of Analogies in 17th and 18th Century Science</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The object of this paper is to look at the extent and nature of the uses of analogy during the first century following the so-called scientific revolution. Using the research tool provided by JSTOR we systematically analyze the uses of “analog” and its cognates (analogies, analogous, etc.) in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the period 1665–1780. In addition to giving the possibility of evaluating quantitatively the proportion of papers explicitly using analogies, this approach makes it possible to go beyond the maybe idiosyncratic cases of Descartes, Kepler, Galileo, and other much studied giants of the so-called Scientific Revolution..." --- But you could make all kinds of analogies without using the word "analogy"!
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    <title>Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific Revolution - Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2010-08-26T00:19:22+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>ROROTOKO :: George Saliba on his book Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The broader site looks interesting, too.
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    <title>Ingrid D. Rowland: Giordano Bruno</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-05T23:02:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&amp;bookkey=8167222</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>books:noted lives_of_the_scholars psychoceramics renaissance_history early_modern_european_history great_transformation hermeticism scientific_revolution bruno.giordano rowland.ingrid</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Historical Origins of `Open Science': An Essay on Patronage, Reputation and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-30T02:25:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bepress.com/cas/vol3/iss2/art5/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[with commentary by Kenneth Arrow (!)
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<dc:subject>scientific_revolution history_of_science early_modern_european_history great_transformation sociology_of_science economics collective_cognition social_life_of_the_mind to_read david.paul arrow.kenneth</dc:subject>
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    <title>The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War Through the Age of Enlightenment - The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-06T15:20:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=10490</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["examines the emergence during the early modern era of mathematicians, chemists, and natural philosophers who, along with military engineers, navigators, and artillery officers, followed in the footsteps of Archimedes and synthesized scientific theory and military practice. It is the first collaborative scholarly assessment of these early military-scientific relationships  ... investigates the deep connections between two central manifestations of Western power, examining the military context of the Scientific Revolution and the scientific context of the Military Revolution. Unlike the classic narratives of the Scientific Revolution that focus on the theories of, and conflicts between, Aristotelian and Platonic worldviews, ... highlights the emergence of the Archimedean ideal—... a symbiosis ... between the supply of mechanistic science and the demand for military capability. "
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    <title>Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance - Saliba</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2018-05.html#saliba]]></description>
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    <title>Language Log: Poor, arid, and, in appearance, deformed</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Do in Indo-European languages in fact have a vocabulary conducive to modern scientific concepts, or did they in fact have to force their way in?
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