An Intellectual History of Science in the Renaissance

This second of a two-part volume (Book II) extends the historical scientific inquiry of first-part volume (Book I) by considering other specific case studies within cultural, fundamental & technological frameworks. An intellectual cultural history of science & technology examines how human and their applied sciences-experiences have been expressed in, and trained by ideas and technologies. The contributors explain ways in which the sciences allowed advanced modelling on the one hand, and the development of new technological ideas on the other hand, including methods and theories, institutions, engineering devices/instrumentation and social implications as well. Taking into account the excellence of the essays, the book covers several branches and disciplines in science & technology, e. g. , theoretical mathematics and the empirical work, machinery and mechanisms, stored information, transportation, inquiring methods in history and historiography of science & technology. It describes the ways it differently accounted for variation in unlike contexts and consequently how its results remain, still nowadays, a debated question, as well as due to constraints preventing an extensive exploration of its remarkable historiography. The book gathers selected and double peer review contributions by historians of physics/mathematics/engineering/science as new perceptions of the history of science during the Renaissance ranging across several fields of science within its fundamental, cultural & technological history. The volume is an accessible avenue to understanding cultural ideas & technologies by leading authorities who offer much-needed historical insights into the field of and intellectual history of science & technology. It provides an absorbing and revealing read for historians, philosophers, and scientists alike.

Volume II: An Intellectual History of Science in the Renaissance - Part II: Cultural, Fundamental & Technological Frameworks. - Acknowledgments. - Remarks for the Reader. - Editor & Contributors. - Part I: An Overview. - Chapter 1: Introducing the Essays in An Intellectual History of Science in the Renaissance: Cultural, Fundamental & Technological Frameworks, Two Vols. (Raffaele Pisano). - Part II: Selected Essays. - Chapter 2. Institutionalization of Technology in Renaissance Europe (Luciano Boschiero). - Chapter 3. Human Thought and Creativity: Machine Design in the Renaissance (Marco Ceccarelli). - Chapter 4. Information and Communications in the Renaissance (Lewin C. G.). - Chapter 5. Trade & Transport in the Renaissance (Agamenon R. E. Oliveira). - Chapter 6. An Intellectual Review: History and Historiography of Science & Technology in the Renaissance (Raffaele Pisano). - Chapter 7. An Intellectual Culture of Machines in the Renaissance: Open Key Points (Raffaele Pisano). - Index.