The Scientific Revolution

How and why did science - natural history, astronomy, alchemy, medicine and mathematics - shift so radically from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment? Subjects to include: intellectual and social explanations; the clash of natural philosophical and mathematical claims to higher knowledge; relationships with religion; different sites for natural knowledge; new 'scientific' accounts of gender and difference; new institutional, representational and rhetorical forms; artisans, demonstrators and their relationship to 'philosophers'; how 'western' science came to be understood to be something distinct from what came before.