ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the early history of the Scientific Revolution, connecting late medieval trends that were only in tension with Aristotle to early modern trends that expressly broke with the great Greek thinker. It also places science’s early rise amid earlier trends in method, magic, and mathematics, while trying to show how early advances only accelerated the fundamental anthropological trends in European thought that have been highlighted in other chapters. Among other thinkers considered are Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Johannes Regiomontanus (1436–1476), and Georg Peurbach (1423–1461).
