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Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Second Edition) - 2nd Edition Book

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Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Second Edition) - 2nd Edition, From Copernicus, who put the earth in orbit around the sun, to Isaac Newton, who gave the world universal gravitation, the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries transformed the way Europeans understood their world. In this book,, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Second Edition) - 2nd Edition
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  • Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Second Edition) - 2nd Edition
  • Written by author Dear, Peter
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 2009
  • From Copernicus, who put the earth in orbit around the sun, to Isaac Newton, who gave the world universal gravitation, the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries transformed the way Europeans understood their world. In this book,
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Preface
Introduction: Philosophy and Operationalism 1
1 "What was Worth Knowing" in 1500 10
2 Humanism and Ancient Wisdom: How to Learn Things in the Sixteenth Century 30
3 The Scholar and the Craftsman: Paracelsus, Gilbert, Bacon 49
4 Mathematics Challenges Philosophy: Galileo, Kepler, and the Surveyors 65
5 Mechanism: Descartes Builds a Universe 80
6 Extra-Curricular Activities: New Homes for Natural Knowledge 101
7 Experiment: How to Learn Things about Nature in the Seventeenth Century 131
8 Cartesians and Newtonians 149
Conclusion: What was Worth Knowing by the Eighteenth Century? 168
Notes and References 171
Documentation and Further Reading 181
Dramatis Personae 193
Glossary of Major Terms 197
Index 201


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