Scientific Revolution Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700

Name: Scientific Revolution Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700
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ISBN: 9780391039780

ISBN-10: 0391039784

ISBN-13: 9780391039780

Edition: 1998

Authors: James R. Jacob

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An introduction to a large & complicated subject that has come to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the fundamental changes in our understanding of the natural world that occurred in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries & that led to a rejection of ancient & medieval thinking about the universe in favor of the new thinking that gave birth to modern science. It does not pretend to tell the whole story of this momentous transformation, perhaps more important than any other in modern history. But it does highlight & survey what are often considered to be the six principal developments associated with this shift from old to new science. The six changes are: first, the…

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List price: $12.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: BRILL
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Series Editors' Preface


Introduction



The Classical Legacy



Cosmological Renewal and Corrosive Doubt



The New Science



Science in Seventeenth-Century France



Science in Seventeenth-Century England


Selected Bibliography


Index