The origins of modern science: 1300-1800
By: Herbert Butterfield.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 1965
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780684836379
Subjects: Science -- History.; Science -- Philosophy.; Natuurwetenschappen.; Exacte wetenschappen.
Other titles: Origins of modern science
Table of contents: title: Historical importance of a theory of impetus; title: Conservatism of Copernicus; title: Study of the heart down to William Harvey; title: Downfall of Aristotle and Ptolemy; title: Experimental method in seventeenth century; title: Bacon and Descartes; title: Effect of the scientific revolution on the non-mechanical sciences; title: History of the modern theory of gravitation; title: Transition of the Philosophe movement in the reign of Louis XIV; title: Place of the scientific revolution in the history of western civilisation; title: Postponed scientific revolution in chemistry; title: Ideas of progress and ideas of evolution