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The scientific revolution

P.M. Harman

(Routledge library editions, . History and philosophy of science ; v. 14)

Routledge, 2009, c1983

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Methuen, 1983

ISBN for subseries: 9780415420297, 0415420296

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 during the period was affected by broader historical terms. Themes such as the spread of Puritanism, the decline of witchcraft and magic, and the incorporation of science as an integral part of the intellectual milieu of late seventeenth-century England.

Table of Contents

The medieval world picture. Renaissance theories of nature. Technology and the crafts. Witchcraft and popular magic in the Renaissance. The Copernican Revolution. Galileo: science and religion. Bacon: the reform of learning. The Baconian tradition and the Puritan movement. Descartes: the mechanization of the world picture. The Royal Society and the mechanical world view. The Newtonian world view.

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  • NCID
    BA89114557
  • ISBN
    • 9780415474832
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    vii, 35 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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