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Title: The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics by Richard S. Westfall ISBN: 0-521-29295-6 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great introduction to the 17th century scientific revolution
Comment: This book really is a great introduction to the scientific revolution of the 17th century. It's part of a series of books called "History of Science Series" and is dedicated to bringing the history of science to a wider audience. It presents the general reader with an accurate, short narrative and analysis of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. Unlike other books on this subject it does not require the reader to be familiar with a lot of technical background knowledge.
Two major themes dominated the period covered in the book; the Platonic-Pythagorean tradition, which looked on nature in geometric terms, and the mechanical philosophy, which conceived of nature as a huge machine and sought to explain the hidden mechanisms behind phenomena. These themes run through the various chapters of the book. Starting out in the first chapter with the copernican revolution in astronomy (the heliocentric theory) it shows how two men, Kepler and Galileo, reformed the theory and opened up new questions for the comming century. The following chapters cover the various sciences such as mechanics, chemistry and biology. After an interluding chapter covering the organization of the scientific enterprise (showing that universities were not always the principal centers of scientific research) it ends with two chapters in which the two themes mentioned above are drawn together and ultimately lead to the discovery of Newton's laws, solving major problems opened up at the beginning of the century.
I had to read this book as part of a course at the university where I study. I enjoyed the book (and the course) a lot (which I don't say verry often) even though it doesn't have anything to do the primary subject of my study, business information technology. If you're at all 'science minded' this book is a must. You wont regret purchasing it.
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Title: The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 by David C. Lindberg ISBN: 0226482316 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Man and Nature in the Renaissance by Allen G. Debus ISBN: 0521293286 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1978 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The Birth of a New Physics by I. Bernard Cohen ISBN: 0393300455 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by Edwin A. Burtt, E. A. Burtt ISBN: 0486425517 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought by Thomas S. Kuhn ISBN: 0674171039 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1957 List Price(USD): $13.45 |
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