"Revolutionizing the Sciences"

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This paper discusses Peter Dear's book, "Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and its Ambitions: 1500-1700". The paper examines Dear's suggestion that the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was perhaps no revolution at all-a progression of thought rather than a break with the past. The paper illustrates how the book is designed to give the reader a general introduction to the history of ideas, as opposed to a history of events, even though, as the title suggests, this historical book is ordered in a chronological fashion.

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"Peter Dear compares the beginning and the end of the 16th and 18th century ages and approaches over the course of his study, after taking the reader on a history of the evolving natural philosophy, humanism, mathematics, classical study and experimentalism of the ensuing decades. He bookends the medieval focus with the scientific and rationalist emphasis of the 18th century, comparing what was considered "worth knowing" by the end of 18th century," after science and neo-classical philosophy had penetrated the European consciousness with what was worth knowing in 1500. "

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