http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3200 2013-05-21T21:40:06Z 2013-05-21T21:40:06Z Finucane, Jane http://hdl.handle.net/2262/3238 2010-06-03T15:55:35Z 2006-11-11T11:46:54Z

Title: Science, time & community: supplementary text & illustrations Author: Finucane, Jane Abstract: Supplementary material to accompany 'Science, Time & Community: A Digital Exhibition', a project researched by the M. Phil. candidates in Reformation and Enlightenment Studies 2005/6 which concentrated its inquiry on a specific aspect of early modern cosmology: the fusion and interchange of 1.perceptions of time (including eschatological dimensions, age of the world, end of creation) and the use of predictors of the future by means of astronomy/astrology and the interpretation of monstrous births 2.attempts to build a golden age, an ideal society, the creative imagination of improvers and ways in which early modern science assisted or cut across those attempts: mathematical principles to be identified in the harmony of the spheres and applied to human construction (such as fortifications and ideal cities), alchemy and geology, 3. the impact of both - perceptions of time and exploration of early modern science - on the various experiences of community life and its transformation.

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