Title: The construction of modern science; mechanisms and mechanics
Authors: Westfall, Richard S.
Publisher: Wiley
Year: 1971
Subjects: Mechanics History; Science History; Science history
Abstract: "This is a new synthesis of science in the 17th century. It follows developments within the individual sciences in terms of a new conception of nature and a new conception of the scientific enterprise. It examines a line of expanding investigation beginning with the revolution in scientific thought that occurred with Kepler and Galileo at the beginning of the 17th century, and concluding with Newton at the century's end. Instead of cataloguing the discoveries and listing them chronologically, the author presents a new pattern of organization for students that is designed to integrate separate facts into a coherent and comprehensible whole." [Back cover].
Contents: Celestial dynamics and terrestrial mechanics -- The mechanical philosophy -- Mechanical chemistry -- Biology and the mechanical philosophy -- Organization of the scientific enterprise -- The science of mechanics -- Newtonian dynamics.