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The Rise of Modern Science Explained

2015-09-24 Science
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Book Synopsis The Rise of Modern Science Explained by : H. Floris Cohen

Download or read book The Rise of Modern Science Explained written by H. Floris Cohen. This book was released on 2015-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often ingenious, were misdirected when viewed from the perspective of modern science. In the 1600s thinkers such as Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Bacon and many others gave revolutionary new twists to traditional ideas and practices, culminating in the work of Isaac Newton half a century later. It was as if the world was being created anew. But why did this recreation begin in Europe rather than elsewhere? This book caps H. Floris Cohen's career-long effort to find answers to this classic question. Here he sets forth a rich but highly accessible account of what, against many odds, made it happen and why.

How Modern Science Came Into the World

2010 History
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Release : 2010
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis How Modern Science Came Into the World by : H. F. Cohen

Download or read book How Modern Science Came Into the World written by H. F. Cohen. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time 'The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century' was an innovative concept that inspired a stimulating narrative of how modern science came into the world. Half a century later, what we now know as 'the master narrative' serves rather as a strait-jacket - so often events and contexts just fail to fit in. No attempt has been made so far to replace the master narrative. H. Floris Cohen now comes up with precisely such a replacement. Key to his path-breaking analysis-cum-narrative is a vision of the Scientific Revolution as made up of six distinct yet narrowly interconnected, revolutionary transformations, each of some twenty-five to thirty years' duration. This vision enables him to explain how modern science could come about in Europe rather than in Greece, China, or the Islamic world. It also enables him to explain how half-way into the 17th century a vast crisis of legitimacy could arise and, in the end, be overcome.

The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630

2013-04-02 Science
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Release : 2013-04-02
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Book Synopsis The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 by : Marie Boas Hall

Download or read book The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 written by Marie Boas Hall. This book was released on 2013-04-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted historian of science examines the Coperican revolution, the anatomical work of Vesalius, the work of Paracelsus, Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system, the effects of Galileo's telescopic discoveries, more.

To Explain the World

2015-02-17 History
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Release : 2015-02-17
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis To Explain the World by : Steven Weinberg

Download or read book To Explain the World written by Steven Weinberg. This book was released on 2015-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful commentary on the history of science from the Greeks to modern times, by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg—a thought-provoking and important book by one of the most distinguished scientists and intellectuals of our time. In this rich, irreverent, and compelling history, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato’s Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world—they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged. Along the way, Weinberg examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing spheres of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy. An illuminating exploration of the way we consider and analyze the world around us, To Explain the World is a sweeping, ambitious account of how difficult it was to discover the goals and methods of modern science, and the impact of this discovery on human knowledge and development.

The Rise of Modern Science Explained

2015-09-24 History
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Book Synopsis The Rise of Modern Science Explained by : H. Floris Cohen

Download or read book The Rise of Modern Science Explained written by H. Floris Cohen. This book was released on 2015-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers scientific discovery from approximately 1500-1699.--

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