Origins of Modern Science 1300-1800
Publisher: Free Press
Published: February 1, 1965
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780029050705
Subjects: History of science; USA; c 1000 CE to c 1500; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Science / General; History; Philosophy; Science; History: American
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.