It Started with Copernicus How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

Name: It Started with Copernicus How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution
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ISBN: 9780071385077

ISBN-10: 007138507X

ISBN-13: 9780071385077

Edition: 2002

Authors: Howard Margolis

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Howard Margolis takes a fresh look at the scientific revolution, revealing the mental habits that can lead even great thinkers to adhere to an idea that has no rational basis and keep them from seeing how to get at the truth that is in front of them.

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 4/25/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Making Worlds	p. 13
Tycho's Illusion	p. 41
The Discovery of Discovery	p. 77
Around-the-Corner Inquiry	p. 111
Stevin, Gilbert, Kepler, and Galileo	p. 137
The Emergence of Probability	p. 171
Epilogue: Cognition and Politics	p. 193
AC and the Industrial Revolution	p. 203
References	p. 209
Index	p. 217
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