Science and the Early Modern Cloister 

Recent work by historians has yielded an ever-expanding list of sites in early modern Western Europe associated with the rise of the ‘new science’—that broad category of innovation in the natural sciences that included new theories for understanding natural phenomena (e.g., corpuscularianism, mechanical philosophy) and the development of experimental procedures and precision instruments to better […]

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