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This second volume by Silvio Bedini pursues themes set out in his previous collection; the main focus is, again, on Italy, but the scope is broadened to include

Since the time of Aristotle, the making of knowledge and the making of objects have generally been considered separate enterprises. Yet during the late sixteent

This book seeks to illustrate the interconnections of science and philosophy with religion and politics in the early modern period by focusing on the institutio

We all know the history of science that we learned from grade school textbooks: How Galileo used his telescope to show that the earth was not the center of the

This book is about the archaeology of science, or what can be learnt from the systematic examination of the artefacts made by precision craftsmen for the study