Revolution in Science 1500-1750
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781306970082
Subjects: Science; History; Methodology; Philosophy; Sciences; Histoire; Méthodologie
Table of contents: title: 1. The problem of cause; title: 2. The scientific revival of the sixteenth century; title: 3. A century of confusion; title: 4. The new science of motion; title: 5. The revolution in astronomy; title: 6. Innovation in biology; title: 7. New systems of scientific thought in the seventeenth century; title: 8. The organization and purpose of science; title: 9. Some technical influences; title: 10. The progress of experimentation; title: 11. Nature and number; title: 12. Newton; title: 13. The range of life; title: 14. The legacy of Newton.