The Origins of Modern Science
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Free Press
Published: April 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780684836379
Subjects: History of science; Science/Mathematics; Science; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History; History / Russia (pre- & post-Soviet Union); History-Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Science / History
First sentence: IT IS ONE of the paradoxes of the whole story with which we have to deal that the most sensational step leading to the scientific revolution in astronomy was taken long before the discovery of the telescope-even long before the Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, in the latter part of the sixteenth century, had shown the great improvement that it was still possible to achieve in observations made with the naked eye.