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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then pay attention...
Ancient cultures have been looking up at the stars for thousands of years, wondering about their place in the universe. What were those glowing spots in the black cover of night? Just how far away was the moon? These and other questions hounded humanity through the millennia until, finally, relative economic stability allowed for a number of people to examine their world more closely. Slowly, knowledge and understanding accumulated generation by generation until the conditions were ideal enough for a revolution to occur in thinking, experimentation, worldview, and natural philosophy.
In The Scientific Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Emergence of Modern Science During the Early Modern Period, Including Stories of Thinkers Such as Isaac Newton and René Descartes, you will discover topics such as:
- Science: A Definition and Brief Prehistory
- The Early Western Sciences
- Paracelsus
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Luigi Anguillara
- Andreas Vesalius
- Ignazio Danti
- Tycho and Sophia Brahe
- Paul Wittich
- Sethus Calvisius
- Joseph Goedenhuyze
- Giordano Bruno
- Conrad Gessner
- Johannes Kepler
- Daniel Sennert
- Galileo Galilei
- William Harvey
- René Descartes
- Robert Boyle
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Isaac Newton
- Robert Hooke
- Maria Sibylla Merian
- Mary Somerville
- And much, much more!
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- JudithCastillo
- 10-30-19
It is fundamental book
If you want to know know the world works, this audiobook goes a long way in helping. Current paradigms and the way they ignore "anomalies" are particularly understandable after listening.I got a free review copy of this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left a review.
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- HenriettaMorgan
- 10-23-19
The process of scientific discovery
Perhaps it is safe to say no questions are likely to find a permanent answer in such a setting. However, the book does give rise to lively discussions both for and against.
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- CruzPreston
- 11-01-19
Great book with a lot of unique insight
Illuminating with a lively style and engaging prose. It has inspired me to read much more on this subject, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
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- EarnestHickman
- 10-23-19
A classic that is still very much worth book
As a social scientist, I find in this book theoretical explanation for explaining changes in the natural sciences very useful to explain shifts in how societies organize themselves in Republics with Constitutions, separated from religions. Democracy and confessional states are not compatible.
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- EdgarHumphrey
- 10-30-19
An excellent and revolutionary book.
This is a much-quoted book on the philosophy of science. One of the most influential books on how science is actually done.
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- FranMalone
- 10-24-19
My favorite book since the 60s
Still a classic. A revolutionary perspective on learning that has ramifications far beyond its content. Educators, take note!
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- KermitReyes
- 10-23-19
A Good Synthesis of the Historiography!
Illuminating with a lively style and engaging prose. It has inspired me to read much more on this subject, and I'm sure I'm not alone.
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- SilviaStokes
- 10-23-19
As described
Informative and historically. Useful for understand developments in scientific theory. Just a preferred book, not bad just my favorite.
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- CarolGomez
- 10-30-19
A masterpiece of philosophy of science.
Every member of the scientific community should read this book. This book provides a framework to think about science and its progress.I was given a free review copy of this audio book at my request.
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- ShawnConrad
- 10-23-19
Decent Introductory audiobook
The Scientific Revolution represented a profound change in the way that we try to understand nature. The influence of science today, and its prestite, is pervasive. So this is an interesting topic.
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