Revolutionizing the Sciences
Subtitle: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780691088600
Subjects: History; Science/Mathematics; European History; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Science / History; Science; Europe
First sentence: In 1500 the universities reigned over European intellectual life.
Description: "This is an ideal textbook on the Scientific Revolution for courses on the history of science or the history of early modern Europe. The text is chronologically arranged and fully covers both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, standing alone as an up-to-date, complete general introduction to the origins of modern science in Europe.".

"Revolutionizing the Sciences is the best available choice for teaching or learning about the developments that came to be called the Scientific Revolution."--BOOK JACKET.