Scientific Revolution

Informationen zum Autor Peter Harman Zusammenfassung This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows how the transformation in world-view during the period was affected by broader historical terms. Inhaltsverzeichnis The medieval world picture. Renaissance theories of nature. Technology and the crafts. Witchcraft and popular magic in the Renaissance. The Copernican Revolution. Galileo: science and religion. Bacon: the reform of learning. The Baconian tradition and the Puritan movement. Descartes: the mechanization of the world picture. The Royal Society and the mechanical world view. The Newtonian world view.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter Harman
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.08.2008
• EAN: 9780415474832
• ISBN: 978-0-415-47483-2
• Seiten: 34
• Serie: Routledge Library Editions: History & Philosophy of Science
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / General, SCIENCE / General, REFERENCE / General, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Science, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History and Archaeology