Revolution and Continuity: Essays in History Philosophy of Early Modern Science

Here is nice blue cloth hardcover volume in dustjacket from the series STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY published by The Catholic University of America Press (CUA Press).This volume is REVOLUTION AND CONTINUITY: ESSAYS IN THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, edited by Peter Barker and Roger Ariew, and contains 223 pages. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction Peter Barker and Roger Ariew pp. 1-20   Part I: Scientific Institutions 1. Societies, Circles, Academies, and Organizations: A Historiographic Essay on Seventeenth-Century Science David Lux pp. 23-44   2. Tradition versus Novelty: Universities and Scientific Societies in the Early Modern Period Mordechai Feingold pp. 45-60   Part II: Medicine and Geology 3. Physick and Natural History in Seventeenth-Century England Harold Cook pp. 63-80   4. A New Science of Geology in the Seventeenth Century? Roger Ariew pp. 81-92   Part III: Astronomy and Physics 5. Innovation and Continuity in the History of Astronomy: The Case of the Rotating Moon Alan Gabbey pp. 95-130   6. The Heavens and Earth: Bellarmine and Galileo Joseph Pitt pp. 131-142   7. The Blasphemy of Alfonso X: History or Myth? Bernard R. Goldstein pp. 143-154   Part IV: Mathematics 8. Cavalieri's Indivisibles and Euclid's Canons Francois De Gandt pp. 157-182 9. Descartes' Geometry and the Classical Tradition Emily Grosholz pp. 183-196   Bibliography pp. 197-212   Notes on the Contributors pp. 213-216   Index pp. 217-222. This volume might be of interest to students of philosophy, theology, discovery.  Please see my other auctions for more books in philosophy, theology, classics, and biblical studies. Thank you.