This revised edition of The Scientific Revolution highlights the difficulty of engaging, discarding, or assimilating religious paradigms in the course of scientific development.
O'Malley, JohnW., S.J., and Garvin Alexander Bailey, Steven J. Harris, and J. Frank Kennedy, S.J., eds. The Jesuits:Cultures,Sciences and the Arts,1540–1773. University of Toronto Press, 1999. Jewish Culture Although they were early ...
"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific ...
Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at the time.
This revised edition of The Scientific Revolution highlights the difficulty of engaging, discarding, or assimilating religious paradigms in the course of scientific development.
From the publication of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus (1543), to the death of Isaac Newton (1627), there was an fundamental change in human thinking about nature. The essays in The Scientific...
In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science.
Originally published in 1983.This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows how the transformation in world-view ...
The Western Heritage, 1300–1815. New York: Macmillan, 1983, p. 619. 58. Richard Hooker. “Seventeenth Century Enlightenment Thought.” www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/ ENLIGHT.HTM. 59. John Locke. The Second Treatise of Government.
This book introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The Scientific Revolution is known as the time period when modern science was born.
In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science.
But here the reader is also introduced to lesser known ideas and contributors to the Scientific Revolution, such as the mathematical Bernoulli Family and Andreas Vesalius, whose anatomical charts revolutionized the study of the human body.
The Scientific Revolution
Author Don Nardo discusses the scientific revolution in Europe that led to what we now know as modern science.
The Scientific Revolution: 1625-1774