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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Jacob, Margaret C. (1943-....)
Titre(s) : The scientific revolution [Texte imprimé] : a brief history with documents / Margaret C. Jacob
Édition : 2nd ed.
Publication : Boston ; New York : Bedford/St. Martin's, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-145 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm
Collection : The Bedford series in history and culture
Lien à la collection : The Bedford series in history and culture
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 129-133
This revised edition highlights the difficulty of engaging, discarding, or assimilating
religious paradigms in the course of scientific development
Sujet(s) : Progrès scientifique et technique -- Sources
Sciences -- Histoire -- Sources
Indice(s) Dewey :
509 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1319113133. - ISBN 9781319113131 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45675212d
Notice n° :
FRBNF45675212
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Part one. Introduction : the evolution and impact of the Scientific Revolution.. Why
did the Scientific Revolution happen? -- ; Aristotle, Ptolemy, and their early modern
defenders -- ; Exploration and technological innovation -- ; The emergence of the
Scientific Revolution -- ; The new science -- ; The mechanical philosophy -- ; Newtonian
science -- ; Reconciling science, religion, and magic -- ; Spreading the Scientific
Revolution -- ; Conclusion : the long road to acceptance -- ; Part two. The documents..
On the revolutions of the heavenly orbs, 1543 / / Nicolaus Copernicus ; ; The Advancement
of learning, 1605 / / Franis Bacon ; ; The starry messenger, 1610 / / Galileo Galilei
; ; Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, 1632 / / Galileo Galilei ; ;
On the motion of the heart and blood in animals, 1628 / / William Harvey ; ; Discourse
on method, 1637 / / René Descartes ; New experiments physico-mechanical, 1660 /,
Robert Boyle ; ; A free-enquiry into the vulgarly received notion of nature, 1686
/ / Robert Boyle ; ; Letter to philosophical transactions of the royal society, 1672
/ / Isaac Newton ; ; Sections from Principia, 1687 / / Isaac Newton ; ; Thirty-first
query to the opticks, 1718 / / Isaac Newton ; ; The celestial worlds discovered,
1698 / / Christian Huygens ; ; Letter about her scientific work, 1702 / / Maria Sibylla
Merian ; ; Butterfly, hawk-moth, caterpillar, 1705 / / Maria Sibylla Merian ; ;
Letters to Serena, 1704 / / John Toland ; ; The monadology, 1714 / / Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibniz ; ; Physico-mechanical lectures, 1717 / / Jean T. Desaguliers ; ; Experiments
and observations on electricity made at Philadelphia in America, 1751 / / Benjamin
Franklin ; ; Appendixes.
