Baroque Science

Baroque Science
Author: Ofer Gal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2014-07-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022621298X


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Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and compromises that shaped the New Science of the seventeenth century and enabled its spectacular success.


Baroque Science
Language: en
Pages: 348
Authors: Ofer Gal
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-21 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Presents a perspective on the study of early modern science. This title examines science in the context of the baroque, analyzes the tensions, paradoxes, and co
Science in the Age of Baroque
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Ofer Gal
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-28 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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This volume examines the New Science of the 17th century in the context of Baroque culture, analysing its emergence as an integral part of the high culture of t
Ethno-Baroque
Language: en
Pages: 175
Authors: Rozita Dimova
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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In post-1991 Macedonia, Barok furniture came to represent affluence and success during a period of transition to a new market economy. This furniture marked the
Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: Angela Ndalianis
Categories: Games & Activities
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: MIT Press (MA)

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Tracing the logic of media history, from the baroque tothe neo-baroque, from magic lanterns and automata to film andcomputer games.
The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque
Language: en
Pages: 907
Authors: John D. Lyons
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Euro