The Scientific Revolution and the Foundations of Modern Science

Author Wilbur Applebaum

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Author

Wilbur Applebaum

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Greenwood Publishing Group

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Copyright

2005

ISBN13

9780313061257

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eBook

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9th Grade - College Senior

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Explains how the pursuit of natural philosophy from about 1500 to 1700 created the foundation of modern science. Discusses how the profound changes in the study of the natural world in this period was made possible by social and cultural changes occurring Western Europe. Details the ideas and practices of key figures, the concepts they overcame, and the nature of the institutions within which they worked.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Recent Titles in Greenwood Guides to Historic Events, 1500–1900.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Contents.
Illustrations.
Series Foreword.
Introduction.
Chronology of Events.
1: Historical Overview.
2: Astronomy and the Cosmos.
3: Matter, Motion, and the Mathematical Sciences.
4: The Nature of Living Things.
5: New Methods for the Advancement of Knowledge.
6: Religion and Natural Philosophy.
7: Influence of the Scientific Revolution.
8: Biographies.
9: Bacon, Francis (1561–1626).
10: Boyle, Robert (1627–1691).
11: Brahe, Tycho (1546–1601).
12: Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473–1543).
13: Descartes, René (1596–1650).
14: Galilei, Galileo (1564–1642).
15: Gassendi, Pierre (1592–1655).
16: Gilbert, William (1544–1603).
17: Harvey, William (1578–1657).
18: Hooke, Robert (1635–1703).
19: Huygens, Christiaan (1629–1695).
20: Kepler, Johannes (1571–1630).
21: Malpighi, Marcello (1628–1694).
22: Newton, Isaac (1642–1727).
23: Paracelsus (c. 1493–1541).
24: Vesalius, Andreas (1514–1564).
Primary Documents.
25: Traditional Natural Philosophy.
26: Aristotelianism.
27: The Transformation of Cosmology and Astronomy.
28: Copernicus on the Nature of and Reasons for His Astronomical Theory.
29: Kepler and the Creation of a New Astronomy.
30: The Role of the Telescope in Challenging the Aristotelian Cosmos.
31: The Reform of the Medical Sciences.
32: Alchemy, the Nature of Matter, and Medical Practice.
33: Vesalius on the Reform of Medicine.
34: Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood.
35: New Methods for the Development of Natural Philosophy.
36: Francis Bacon.
37: René Descartes.
38: The Nature, Outlook, and Methods of the Royal Society.
39: Appropriate Methods in Natural Philosophy as Seen at the End of the Seventeenth Century.
40: Experiment and Measurement in
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