In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen
examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern …

The soul rejoices in perceiving harmonious sound; when the sound is not harmonious it is
grieved. From these affects of the soul are derived the name of consonances for the harmonic …

Once upon a time ‘The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century’ was an innovative concept
that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a …

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 …

This study uses high temperature (215C) dolomitization experiments to explore the effects
of sodium (Na) and potassium (K), two common constituents of natural fluids, on dolomite …

In his 1917 lecture for Munich students (most often entitled in English translation “Science
as a Vocation”), Max Weber addressed numerous issues: not only how “profession” and “…

How children seek knowledge and evaluate claims may depend on their understanding of
the source of knowledge. What shifts in their understandings about why scientists might …

Many pioneers of the Scientific Revolution such as Galileo, Kepler, Stevin, Descartes, Mersenne,
and others, wrote extensively about musical theory. This was not a chance interest of a …

1. The mathematical, broadly ‘Alexandrian’portion of the Greek legacy, after undergoing
several centuries of reception and enrichment in Islamic civilization and then in Renaissance …

An extensive monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) program was carried out from
2011 to 2016 as part of the Illinois Basin – Decatur Project (IBDP), a large-scale carbon …