The Revolution in Science 1500 - 1750

Name: The Revolution in Science 1500 - 1750
ISBN: 9781315836850

doi:10.4324/9781315836850

ABSTRACT

The ‘revolution in science’ of this book concerns the natural sciences, that is, knowledge of the external world which we now presume to exist independently of man.

The Revolution in Science 1500 - 1750

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|19 pages

The problem of cause

chapter 2|34 pages

The scientific revival of the sixteenth century

chapter 3|21 pages

A century of confusion

chapter 4|23 pages

The new science of motion

chapter 5|30 pages

The revolution in astronomy

chapter 6|29 pages

Innovation in biology

chapter 7|33 pages

New systems of scientific thought in the seventeenth century

chapter 8|29 pages

The organization and purpose of science

chapter 9|18 pages

Some technical influences

chapter 10|29 pages

The progress of experimentation

chapter 11|21 pages

Nature and number

chapter 12|25 pages

Newton

chapter 13|16 pages

The range of life

chapter 14|16 pages

The legacy of Newton