Ingenious Pursuits : Building the Scientific Revolution

Abacus, UK, 2000. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good (ex-library). Trade Paperback. 444 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Abacus, UK, 2000. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good (ex-library) condition. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Covers have no creasing. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Cover is protected in clear, self-adhesive laminate. Pages are considerably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Today the 'two cultures' - art and science - have come to be treated as fundamentally opposed, their aims incompatible. Scientific research is castigated for its inhumane methods & lack of moral responsibility, while art is treated as an enduring source of essential guidance to society's spiritual well-being. Lisa Jardine makes clear in this remarkable book that this is a distinction which is both artificial & historically inaccurate. The intellectual revolution of the 17th & early 18th eighteenth centuries was the single most formative event in Western history, bringing together the humanities & natural sciences in an unprecedented ferment of conceptual & practical creativity. She documents the forces for change which brought the human & natural sciences together & gave them shape. Each of her series of key components - among them, precise time measurement, enhanced astronomical observation, selective animal & plant breeding & technological advances in navigation - lays a crucial part of the foundations for modern thought. INGENIOUS PURSUITS brilliantly illuminates the practice of science, its impact on the emerging modern world & its continuing relevance to society. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Science & Technology. ISBN: 034911305X. ISBN/EAN: 9780349113050. Inventory No: 13110188.. 9780349113050