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The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the \\\Scientific Revolution.\\\ New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawrence Principe
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2011
Series:Very short introductions.
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Table of Contents:
  • New worlds and old worlds
  • The connected world
  • The superlunar world
  • The sublunar world
  • The microcosm and the living world
  • Building a world of science.