The Scientific Revolution: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Margaret C. Jacob (Ph.D., Cornell University) is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has published widely on science, religion, the Enlightenment, freemasonry, and the origins of the Industrial Revolution. Her first book,The Newtonians and the English Revolution(1976), won the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Her most recent monograph isStrangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe(2006).