Title: From Leonardo to Lavoisier, 1450-1800 /
Authors: Cohen, I. Bernard,
Date: 1980
Publisher: Scribner,
Physical description: xiii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Abstract: Deals with the establishment of modern science from the age of Leonardo, Vesalius, and Copernicus to the time of Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin, Volta, Linnaeus, Albrecht von Haller, and Newton. Concludes with a section on science and society, which show us the the magnificent scientific achievement, Diderot's "Encyclopédie", and which culminates in the belief in progress and the limitlessness of science.
Contents: The new world of science -- The astronomical universe -- The exact sciences -- The experimental physical sciences -- The earth sciences -- The life sciences -- Science and society.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Science, Medieval.; Science--History.