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Investigations of Nature: Europe in a Global World, 1450s-1780s

Name: Investigations of Nature: Europe in a Global World, 1450s-1780s
Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press
SKU: 9780822948988
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Contributors:

Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Science, History

Book Subcategory:

History, Europe

Book Topic:

Renaissance

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Release Date:

11/18/2025

ISBN 13:

9780822948988

Weight:

1.97 lbs

Size:

9.90 x 10.32 x 1.37 inches

Pages:

496

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Investigations of Nature takes us on a guided tour through history, when voyages of exploration and exploitation were tied to technological advances in navigation and warfare; religious unity was broken with huge political, economic, and intellectual consequences; and the new art of printing led to an explosion of information. After a brief introduction, each part of this book--from sections on the Renaissance to the Epistemic Revolution to the Enlightenment--opens with a chapter discussing a defining characteristic: geography and navigation characterize the Renaissance as the age of discovery and colonialism; astronomy and optics characterize the Epistemic Revolution as the age of new instruments, such as the telescope; and universal gravity in Newton's time characterizes the Enlightenment as the age of quantification, with welcome and unwelcome consequences and reflection on the status of our theories. Heavily illustrated and with a practical historiographic guide and bibliography for further reading, this book is an indispensable teaching tool for anyone seeking an accessible survey of the Renaissance or the Enlightenment.

About the Author
Domenico Bertoloni Meli is provost professor in history and philosophy of science and medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has received several fellowships and awards, including a Wellcome Fellowship at Cambridge University, a Dibner Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Investigations of Nature: Europe in a Global World, 1450s-1780s

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