Revolutionizing the Sciences by Peter Dear
From Copernicus, who put the earth in orbit around the sun, to Isaac Newton, who gave the world universal gravitation, the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries transformed the way that Europeans understood their world. This book offers an introduction to the origins of modern science for both students and general readers.
[Dear] throws interesting light on the changing criteria used to evaluate natural knowledge, especially the increasing emphasis on experiment.. As a full and accurate account of such matters, this book is the best available, and I would recommend it to anyone. -- Michael Hunter Nature
Peter Dear is Professor of History and of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools and Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, which received the Ludwik Fleck Award from the Society for Social Studies of Science. He is the editor of The Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe and The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument: Historical Studies.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691088600 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691088608 |
| Title | Revolutionizing the Sciences |
| Author | Peter Dear |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 2001-03-12 |
| Number of pages | 216 |
| Prizes | Winner of Watson Davis Prize 2002 |
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