HOW MODERN SCIENCE CAME INTO THE WORLD: FOUR CIVILIZATIONS, ONE 17TH-CENTURY BREAKTHROUGH
Book ID/图书代码： 00442011B46393
English Summary/英文概要： Once upon a time ’The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century’ was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as ’the master narrative’ serves rather as a strait-jacket - so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Floris Cohen now comes up with precisely such a replacement. Key to his path-breaking analysis-cum-narrative is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct yet narrowly interconnected, revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five to thirty years’ duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world. It also enables him to explain how half-way into the 17th century a vast crisis of legitimacy could arise and, in the end, be overcome. Building forth on his earlier The Scientific Revolution. A Historiographical Inquiry (1994), his new book takes the latest researches duly into account, while connecting these in highly innovative ways. It is meant throughout as a constructive effort to break up all-too-deeply frozen patterns of thinking about the history of science.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 曾今，“十七世紀的科學革命”是一大革新理念，並激發世人創作了一篇介紹近代科學產生之路的動人敘述。半個世紀以後，我們所熟知的“主導論述”卻變成了科學發展的絆腳石。其實，現實與文本不相適宜的情況在生活中比比皆是。但是，此後再也沒有人敢於嘗試去創作一篇替代品。
現在，H．弗洛瑞斯.科恩就恰到好處地奉獻了這樣一部替代之作。科恩的這部作品集分析與敘述為一體，具有突破性的意義。它的關鍵之處在于作者認為科技革命由六個獨特但又包涵某些內部聯繫的革命性轉變共同組成，而且每一次轉變都持續了25到30年的時間。該論點使得作者能夠說明近代科學之所以興起於歐洲，而不是希臘，中國，或者伊斯蘭世界的原因；它還使得作者能夠解釋17世紀中期一場巨大的合法性危機是如何產生，以及它最終又是如何被克服的。作者將此書建立在此前兩部作品的基礎上，分別是《科學革命》和《史學調查研究》，同時又適當地加入最新的研究成果，將幾部作品的成果以高度創造性的方式連接起來。縱觀整個科學發展史，它將成為打破過度死板僵硬思維方式的建設性成就。（XMM）
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About the Author/作者介绍： H．弗洛瑞斯.科恩是荷蘭烏德勒支大學比較歷史學的教授。H. Floris Cohen is professor of Comparative History of Science at Utrecht University.
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