Title:
The origins of modern science: 1300-1800 / Herbert Butterfield.
Author:
Butterfield, Herbert, 1900-1979.
Publication Information:
New York : Free Press, 1965.
Call Number:
Q125 .B9 1965
Edition:
Rev. ed.
ISBN:
9780684836379
Series:
Free Press paperback ; 90507
Free Press paperback ; 90507.
Physical Description:
255 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
"Free Press paperback ed."--Title page verso.
Contents:
Historical importance of a theory of impetus -- Conservatism of Copernicus -- Study of the heart down to William Harvey -- Downfall of Aristotle and Ptolemy -- Experimental method in seventeenth century -- Bacon and Descartes -- Effect of the scientific revolution on the non-mechanical sciences -- History of the modern theory of gravitation -- Transition of the Philosophe movement in the reign of Louis XIV -- Place of the scientific revolution in the history of western civilisation -- Postponed scientific revolution in chemistry -- Ideas of progress and ideas of evolution.
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