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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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| Natura: | Printed Book |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2011
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| Serie: | Very short introductions.
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Sommario:
- 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.