Part two. The documents. Appendixes. Aristotle, Ptolemy, and their early modern defenders -- Exploration and technological innovation -- The emergence of the Scientific Revolution -- The new science -- The mechanical philosophy -- Newtonian science -- Reconciling science, religion, and magic -- Spreading the Scientific Revolution -- Conclusion : the long road to acceptance -- Part two. The documents. On the revolutions of the heavenly orbs, 1543 / Benjamin Franklin -- The Advancement of learning, 1605 / Franis Bacon -- The starry messenger, 1610 / Galileo Galilei -- Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, 1632 / Galileo Galilei -- On the motion of the heart and blood in animals, 1628 / William Harvey -- Discourse on method, 1637 / ReneĢ Descartes -- New experiments physico-mechanical, 1660 / Robert Boyle -- A free-enquiry into the vulgarly received notion of nature, 1686 / Robert Boyle -- Letter to philosophical transactions of the royal society, 1672 / Isaac Newton -- Sections from Principia, 1687 / Isaac Newton -- Thirty-first query to the opticks, 1718 / Isaac Newton -- The celestial worlds discovered, 1698 / Christian Huygens -- Letter about her scientific work, 1702 / Maria Sibylla Merian -- Butterfly, hawk-moth, caterpillar, 1705 / Maria Sibylla Merian -- Letters to Serena, 1704 / John Toland -- The monadology, 1714 / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Physico-mechanical lectures, 1717 / Jean T. Desaguliers -- Experiments and observations on electricity made at Philadelphia in America, 1751 / Benjamin Franklin -- Appendixes.
Summary:
This revised edition highlights the difficulty of engaging, discarding, or assimilating religious paradigms in the course of scientific development.
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