From Leonardo to Lavoisier, 1450-1800
By: I. Bernard Cohen.
Series: Album of science
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Science -- History
Description: Deals with the establishment of modern science from the age of Leonardo, Vesalius, and Copernicus to the time of Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin, Volta, Linnaeus, Albrecht von Haller, and Newton. Concludes with a section on science and society, which show us the the magnificent scientific achievement, Diderot's "Encyclopédie", and which culminates in the belief in progress and the limitlessness of science.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 278-287.
Includes index.