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Recommendations for Course Adoption "Revolutionizing the Sciences impressively examines the contours of culture in which the natural sciences developed in early modern Europe. Peter Dear has stepped back from years of detailed scholarly research to reflect on the broader contexts in which scientific change occurred. The result is a text rich in novel insights that supplies endless occasions for discussion as both student and professor learn together."--Frederick Gregory, University of Florida "I liked Revolutionizing the Sciences very much: Dear provides an excellent up-to-date synthesis and approaches the problem of the Scientific Revolution by asking interesting questions: ŒWhat was worth knowing in 1500? What was worth knowing by the Eighteenth Century?¹ Students liked this approach, which, even generated some good discussion about the topic 'what was worth knowing in 2001?' a question that few had ever thought about asking! This was a superb way to organize the book."--Stephen F. Englehart, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona "I chose Dear's Revolutionizing the Sciences for a number of reasons. First, I wanted a text that broke out of the traditional organization and historiography, while still crediting how deeply the Scientific Revolution changed natural philosophy. Second, I wanted a text that would challenge my students, but not assume knowledge they did not necessarily have. Dear's book fulfilled all of those needs. I also found his organization useful and innovative. . . . I used this text in an upper-level undergraduate History of Science course, but I also think it would work well in my Early Modern Europe course."--Elizabeth Green Musselman, Southwestern University A sampling of schools that have adopted Revolutionizing the Sciences:
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