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The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science

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Seen as the most significant event since the rise of Christianity and the ultimate reason for the cultural domination of Western civilization in the modern world, the Scientific Revolution was the peroode in which the techniques of this time, but also to the reasons why the Scientific Revolution occurred when and where it did. Among other things, this essential survey:
- Considers the rise of mathematicians form humble crat practitioners to the intellectual leaders of science;
- explores the role of magic in the development of the experimental method;
- examines the importance of religious beliefs in the rise of the modern scientific world-view;
- features a helpful Glossary and extensive annotated Bibliography of aid study.

Concise and approachable, the third edition has been updated throughout to reflect new developments in historiography, while various sections have been revised, extended and strengthened in light of the latest scholarship an research.

John Henry is Reader in the History of Science at the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely on the history of science from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.

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509.4 Hen t

Publisher

New York : Palgrave Macmillan., 2002

Collation

ix + 160 hlm.; 13,5 x 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

033396090

Classification

509.4

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text

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Edition

Third Edition

Subject(s)

History
Science
Europe
Revolution

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John Henry

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