Description: Introduction Peter Dear The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory Robert S. Westman Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe Owen Hannaway "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors": Geography as Self-Definition in Early Modern England Lesley B. Cormack What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution? Keith Hutchison Galileo, Motion, and Essences Margaret J. Osler Science and Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope Richard S. Westfall The Telescope in the Seventeenth Century Albert Van Helden Descartes on Refraction: Scientific versus Rhetorical Method Bruce Stansfield Eastwood Early Seventeenth-Century Atomism: Theory, Epistemology, and the Insufficiency of Experiment Christoph Meinel Robert Boyle and Structural Chemistry in the Seventeenth Century Thomas S. Kuhn Newton's Alchemy and His Theory of Matter B. J. T. Dobbs Totius in verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society Peter Dear The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England Steven Shapin Maria Winkelmann at the Berlin Academy: A Turning Point for Women in Science Londa Schiebinger Appendix: Articles on Early Modern European Science in Isis, 1970-1996 Contributors and Editors

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