Reconceptualizing the Scientific Revolution
H. Floris Cohen
Academics all over the world rightly desire to understand how modern science has come about. Indeed there was a time when historians of had on offer clear-cut conception that happened. But ongoing innovation in historiographical approaches rendered period from Galileo Newton ever more elusive. Its monolithic coherence been dissolved, mood sceptical resignation reigns profession very possibility treating seventeenth-century as than string loosely connected episodes. I argue that, without returning past definitively behind us, may be restored at higher level sophistication. Cross-cultural comparison, and unusual ways dealing with historical concepts causes, are proper tools revitalize issue up partly novel answers question any case refuses go away.
European Review