The scientific revolution : a brief history with documents
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The scientific revolution : a brief history with documents
（The Bedford series in history and culture）
Bedford/St. Martin's, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143) and index
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Description
This volume by Margaret C. Jacob explores the Scientific Revolution from its origins in the early sixteenth century to its widespread acceptance in Western societies in the late eighteenth century. Jacob's introduction outlines the trajectory of the Scientific Revolution and argues that the revival of ancient texts in the Renaissance and the upheaval of the Protestant Reformation paved the way for science. The collected documents include writings of well-known scientists and philosophers, such as Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton, as well as primary sources documenting innovations in medicine and engineering, advances in scientific investigations, and the popularization of the scientific revolution through academies and their journals.
Table of Contents
- Foreword.- Preface.- List of Illustrations.- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.- Why Did the Scientific Revolution Happen?.- Aristotle Ptolemy, and their Early Modern Defenders.- Exploration and Technical Innovation.- The Emergence of the Scientific Revolution.- The New Science.- The Mechanical Philosophy.- Newtonian Science.- Reconciling, Science, Religion, and Magic.- Spreading the Scientific Revolution.- Conclusion: The Long Road to Acceptance.- PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS.- Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs, 1543.- Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605.- Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration, 1620.- Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger, 1610.- William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals, 1628.- Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, 1637.- Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, 1660.- Robert Boyle, A Free-Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature, 1686.- Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, Of the Formation of the Teeth in Several Animals
- the Structure of the Human Teeth Explained, 1683.- Isaac Newton, Letter to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1672.- Isaac Newton, Selections from Principia, 1687 .- Isaac Newton, Thirty-first Query to the Opticks, 1718.- Christiaan Huygens, The Celestial Worlds Discovered, 1698.- Maria Sibylla Merian, Letter of 1702.- Maria Sibylla Merian, Butterfly, Hawk-moth, Caterpillar Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1713-14.- Jean Desaguliers, Physico-Mechanical Lectures, 1717.- Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made in Philadelphia in America, 1751.- Appendixes.- A Chronology of the Scientific Revolution (1514-1752).- Questions for Consideration.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.
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