Göttliche Weltökonomie, Perspektiven der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution vom 15. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert (Divine World Economy: Perspectives of the Scientific Revolution from the 15th to the 17th Century) by Dieter Groh

Zygon® ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 240-241
Author(s):  
Carolin Früh
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
World Economy ◽  
17Th Century

scholarly journals FILOSOFIJA IR XVII a. MOKSLO REVOLIUCIJA

Problemos ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evaldas Nekrašas
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Special Science ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Intellectual Power ◽  
The Revolution

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama, kokią įtaką filosofijos raidai turėjo XVII a. mokslo revoliucija, daugiausia dėmesio skiriant jos padariniams reinterpretuojant filosofijos ir mokslo santykį. Argumentuojama, kad filosofijos, visų pirma metafizikos ir mokslo santykį transformavo aristoteliškosios mokslo plėtotės programos pakeitimas pitagoriškąja – matematizuotos eksperimentinės gamtotyros atsiradimas leido griežčiau atskirti fiziką nuo metafizikos. Specialiųjų mokslų ir metafizikos tikslų, metodų ir nagrinėjamų problemų pobūdžio supriešinimas sudarė pagrindą atsirasti pozityvistiniams filosofijos pertvarkymo į specialųjį mokslą projektams. Straipsnis baigiamas išvada, kad mokslas, jau XVII amžiuje ėmęs virsti intelektualine jėga, pranokstančia filosofiją pagal reikšmę ir įtaką, privertė filosofiją ir filosofus užimti vienokią ar kitokią poziciją savo atžvilgiu. Ši pozicija iš esmės nulemia tiek filosofavimo būdų spektrą, tiek skirtingų filosofavimo būdų santykį. Patys filosofai nebūtinai šią poziciją aiškiai reflektuoja ir fiksuoja, bet ji visada yra tam tikro filosofavimo būdo pasirinkimo pagrindas.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: Newtonas, Hume’as, metafizika, pozityvizmas. PHILOSOPHY AND THE 17TH CENTURY SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONEvaldas Nekrašas Summary The paper deals with the issue of the impact of the 17th century scientific revolution upon the development of philosophy. The main focus is relation between science and philosophy and effects of the revolution on the interpretation of that relation. The author argues that the relation between metaphysics and science has been transformed due to the replacement of the Aristotelian programme of the development of science by the Pythagorean one. The contraposition of aims, methods and problems characteristic of special science to those typical of metaphysics created preconditions for bringing forward the positivist schemes of the transformation of philosophy into one or another special science. The paper ends with the conclusion that science which already in the 17th century became an intellectual power excelling philosophy in significance and influence forced philosophy and philosophers to take a specific stance on it. This stance determines the spectrum of different ways of doing philosophy and their relation to each other. Some philosophers do not reflect the stance on science taken by them. But this stance always affects the choice of ways of doing philosophy.Keywords: Newton, Hume, metaphysics, positivism.

scholarly journals The Roles of Mathematics in the History of Science: The Mathematization Thesis

2020 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Ciro Tomazella Ferreira ◽  
Cibelle Celestino Silva
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Edmund Husserl ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Mathematical Approach ◽  
New Science ◽  
History Of

In this paper, we present an analysis of the evolution of the history of science as a discipline focusing on the role of the mathematization of nature as a historiographical perspective. Our study is centered in the mathematization thesis, which considers the rise of a mathematical approach of nature in the 17th century as being the most relevant event for scientific development. We begin discussing Edmund Husserl whose work, despite being mainly philosophical, is relevant for having affected the emergence of the narrative of the mathematization of nature and due to its influence on Alexandre Koyré. Next, we explore Koyré, Dijksterhuis, and Burtt’s works, the historians from the 20th century responsible for the elaboration of the main narratives about the Scientific Revolution that put the mathematization of science as the protagonist of the new science. Then, we examine the reframing of the mathematization thesis with the narrative of two traditions developed by Thomas S. Kuhn and Richard Westfall, in which the mathematization of nature shares space with other developments taken as equally relevant. We conclude presenting contemporary critical perspectives on the mathematization thesis and its capacity for synthesizing scientific development.

Kopernika Revolūcija – zinātnes laikmeta simbols un klišeja

2021 ◽  
pp. 98-105
Author(s):  
Gunārs Brāzma
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
World View ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Historical Science ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
Copernican Revolution ◽  
Contemporary Science ◽  
The Universe

According to a broadly accepted view, contemporary science emerged after the scientific revolution of the 17th century, which started with Copernican revolution in astronomy. Copernican revolution has become a symbol for characterizing a revolutionary scientific development. During the following centuries, the Copernican revolution has been generalised rethinking of humans’ place and significance in the Universe. Eventually, this has transformed into a claim that Copernicus began “dethronement” of humans from the privileged position in the centre of the Universe, and thus gave a severe blow to the religious world-view. In fact, the concept of Copernican revolution has been transformed into frequently repeated “Copernican cliché”, particularly promoted in many popular science publications and textbooks. Although indeed Copernican revolution led to rethink the significance of humans in the Universe, the “Copernican cliché” oversimplifies both the intentions of Copernicus and the historical science-religion relationship.

3. Knowledge and understanding

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
The Impact

The Epicureans regarded the alleviation of suffering, and especially the suffering produced by fear and anxiety, as the most important contribution of philosophy to life. If all phenomena, even unusual phenomena, arise from the arrangement, motion, and effects of atoms, we cannot be impressed by the power of the gods, and there is no need to placate them or to try to forestall their wrath. ‘Knowledge and understanding’ considers the Epicureans’ explanation of nature, the impact of Epicureanism on the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, and the ability to identify smaller particles with the development of more and more powerful microscopes from the 17th century onwards.

THE PRICE REVOLUTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE RECONSIDERED

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Şevket Pamuk
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
World Economy ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Entire Period ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The Price Revolution of the 16th century has been the subject of one of the most enduring debates in European historiography and, more recently, in the historiography of the world economy. That European prices, expressed in grams of silver, increased by more than 100 percent—and in some countries, by more than 200 percent—from the beginning of the 16th century to the middle of the 17th century has been well established and broadly accepted. In countries that experienced currency debasements, overall inflation was proportionately higher, reaching, in some cases, 600 percent or more for the entire period.

scholarly journals This world is full of vibrations

2018 ◽  
Vol 211 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
J. S. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Tectonic Plate ◽  
Plate Movement ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
The Universe

Man ventured out of the caves nearly 15000 years ago and since then tried to explain earth vibrations as mythology. Naturally occurring earthquakes were observed and described over the last two thousand years. Though the Universe is nearly 14 billion years old and the trillions of celestial bodies are continuously colliding, sending gravitational waves passing energy to bodies like micro-earth that are responsible for tectonic plate movement on this macro-earth and earthquakes, the effects are recorded over two years ago. Ever since scientific revolution in 17th century machines became ubiquitous and their vibrations are felt in every day’s life. This paper summarizes these vibrations.

17th-Century Issues: The Scientific Revolution.

Science ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 274 (5290) ◽  
pp. 1148b-1149b
Author(s):  
D. C. Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
17Th Century

scholarly journals Colonial Reality and Postcolonial Instrumentalization of the Overseas Expansion of the Duchy of Courland

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1136-1146
Author(s):  
Oleg I. Yevstratyev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Systems Analysis ◽  
World Economy ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
Long Duration ◽  
History Of ◽  
Overseas Expansion ◽  
World Systems Analysis

The article is devoted to the theoretical understanding of the history of colonial policy of the Duchy of Courland in 1645–1731 through the prism of the phenomenon of a “colonial reality” based on Fernand Braudel’s concept of three levels of historical time and Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The article also examines with the help of the postcolonial approach the practice of applying a colonial episode of the history of Courland by some modern nations in the context of “postcolonial instrumentalization” of this issue. The following conclusions are as made: 1) at the level of “event history”, colonialism of Courland organized in a typical way of the 17th century in the form of “point” settlements in Gambia and on Tobago (it included also iron mines in Norway leased from Denmark) was part of Jacob Kettler’s (years of reign 1642–1681) project of turning his state into a “second Holland”; 2) within the “time of very long duration”, Courland had convenient geographic but unfavorable geopolitical conditions for the overseas expansion; 3) within the “time of long duration”, colonial policy of the Duchy faced insurmountable obstacles connected with its ethnosocial structure and its peripheral position within the 17th century world-economy; 4) from 1698 to 1731, Duke Jacob’s heirs contested vainly the Island of Tobago as part of the “Courland inheritance”; 5) at the present stage, we can see how some modern nations use this episode to overcome their “postcolonial syndrome” (Latvians, Belarusians) and justify their “imperial” ambitions (Poles). At both levels (“colonial reality” and “postcolonial instrumentalization”), attempts to escape from the periphery into the core are evident.

2. Atomic worlds

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Finite Number ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Infinite Number ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Physical Science ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Fundamental Particles ◽  
Infinite Extent

In Epicureanism, the ‘atom’ is the fundamental element of reality. There is a finite number of different atom shapes, but an infinite number of each shape, which move and congregate in a void of infinite extent. ‘Atomic worlds’ considers how Epicureans came to believe in this ontology and then discusses its doubters, including Parmenides, Aristotle, and Cicero, who believed the Epicurean thesis of the multiplicity of worlds and their ongoing creation and destruction were absurd. The early modern rediscovery of atomism contributed significantly to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century, but despite contemporary physical science retaining some elements of the Epicurean image of nature, it is now known that atoms are not the smallest, fundamental particles.

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