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SUMMARY:To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison - Flor
 is Cohen (Utrecht University)
DTSTART:20151016T143000Z
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CONTACT:Marta Halina
DESCRIPTION:In my talk I shall take up in succession the two constituent e
 lements of the title: (1) Over past decades the idea that it makes histori
 cal sense to speak and keep speaking of 'The Scientific Revolution of the 
 17th century' has been much disparaged\, not so say condemned as hopelessl
 y outdated. In the 'Epilogue' to my 300 pages long book _The Rise of Moder
 n Science Explained_ (just published with Cambridge University Press) I gi
 ve five major reasons\, drawn from the book's argument\, why it makes emin
 ent sense to retain the idea of The Scientific Revolution\, now properly r
 econceptualised in my book as compared to how the concept first arose in t
 he late 1930s. (2) In the much lengthier parent book _How Modern Science C
 ame Into the World: Four Civilizations\, One 17th Century Breakthrough_ (A
 msterdam UP\, 2010) I have set forth in general terms why I have throughou
 t the book used historical comparison as the royal road toward historical 
 explanation. In my talk today\, I shall briefly sum up the general point a
 nd then illustrate it by means of some salient examples\, drawn from the h
 istory of European as well as Chinese nature-knowledge.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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