The Construction of Modern Science
Subtitle: Mechanisms and Mechanics (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1978
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780521218634
Subjects: Classical mechanics; Mechanics - General; Technology / General; Science; History; Mechanics; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: WHEN THE 17TH CENTURY dawned, the Copernican revolution in astronomy was over fifty years old.