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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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List Of Illustrations | |
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Introduction: The Evolution and Impact of the Scientific Revolution | |
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Why Did the Scientific Revolution Happen? | |
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Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Their Early Modern Defenders | |
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Exploration and Technological Innovation | |
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The Emergence of the Scientific Revolution | |
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The New Science | |
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The Mechanical Philosophy | |
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Newtonian Science | |
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Reconciling Science, Religion, and Magic | |
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Spreading the Scientific Revolution | |
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Conclusion: The Long Road to Acceptance | |
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The Documents | |
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs, 1543 | |
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The Advancement of Learning, 1605 | |
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The Great Instauration, 1620 | |
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The Starry Messenger, 1610 | |
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On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, 1628 | |
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Discourse on Method, 1637 | |
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New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, 1660 | |
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A Free-Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature, 1686 | |
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On the Formation of the Teeth in Several Animals; the Structure of the Human Teeth Explained..., 1683 | |
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Letter to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1672 | |
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Selections from Principia, 1687 | |
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Thirty-first Query to the Opticks, 1718 | |
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The Celestial Worlds Discovered, 1698 | |
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Letter about Her Scientific Work, 1702 | |
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Butterfly, Hawk-moth, Caterpillar, 1705 | |
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1713-1714 | |
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Physico-Mechanical Lectures, 1717 | |
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Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America, 1751 | |
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Appendixes | |
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A Chronology of the Scientific Revolution (1514-1752) | |
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Questions for Consideration | |
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Selected Bibliography | |
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Index | |