UsedVeryGood. Very small closed tear on top of spine. Otherwise like new. ISBN 1421401878 9781421401874 [US]

Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 2011. Hardcover. New. New hardcover in matte case wraps. 8vo. (6 x 0.8 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes, bibliography, and index. 224 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Craig Martin takes a careful look at how Renaissance scientists analyzed and interpreted rain, wind, and other natural phenomena like meteors and earthquakes and their impact on the great thinkers of the scientific revolution. Martin argues that meteorology was crucial to the transformation that took place in science during the early modern period. By examining the conceptual foundations of the subject, Martin links Aristotelian meteorology with the new natural philosophies of the seventeenth century. He argues that because meteorology involved conjecture and observation and forced attention to material and efficient causation, it paralleled developments in the natural philosophies of Descartes and other key figures of the scientific revolution. Although an inherently uncertain endeavor, forecasting the weather was an extremely useful component not just of scientific study, but also of politics, courtly life, and religious doctrine. Martin explores how natural philosophers of the time participated in political and religious controversies by debating the meanings, causes, and purposes of natural disasters and other weather phenomena. Through careful readings of an impressive range of texts, ...

Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 2011-11-01. Hardcover. New. 96x12x144. 2011. Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN 1421401878 9781421401874 [US]

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