Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution

Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution
Author: Wilbur Applebaum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1628
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135582556

With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged. Covering the historiography of the period, discussions of the Scientific Revolution's impact on its contemporaneous disciplines, and in-depth analyses of the importance of historical context to major developments in the sciences, The Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution is an indispensible resource for students and researchers in the history and philosophy of science.

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology
Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2023-09-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0241360641

New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about In the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning points in human history. Edited with Translations, Notes and an Introduction by Aviva Rothman

Recentering the Universe

Recentering the Universe
Author: Ron Miller
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467716626

In the sixth century B.C.E., the Greek philosopher Anaximander theorized that Earth was at the center of the cosmos. That idea became ingrained in scientific thinking and Christian religious beliefs for more than one thousand years. Defiance of church doctrine could mean death, so no one dared dispute this long-accepted idea. No one except a handful of courageous scientists. In the 1500s and 1600s, men like Nicolaus Copernicus, Johanned Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton began to ask questions. What if Earth actually orbited the sun, instead of the other way around? What if the universe was much bigger than anyone imagined? These scientists risked their reputations—even their lives—to challenge the very heart of Catholic dogma and scientific tradition. Yet, in less than 200 years, their radical thinking overturned theories that had lasted more than a millennium. Join these bold thinkers on the journey of discovery that forever changed our understanding of the cosmos.

The Copernican Revolution

The Copernican Revolution
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1957
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674171039

An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.

Machina Mundi

Machina Mundi
Author: Paolo Del Santo
Publisher: Edizioni Polistampa
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Catalogo dell'omonima mostra allestita presso il Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze (18 giugno - 18 dicembre 2004). We have chosen to base the story of this World View Network project on the scholarly giants Nicolaus Copernicus, Thyco Brahe, Johann Kepler, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton. There were more of course, but these five made the all-important advancements. The history of how the modern concept of the Universe was created is a journey through two centuries from Frombork in northern Poland, the island of Ven in the Sound between Denmark and Sweden, Prague of the Holy Roman Empire, the scholarly centre in Florence to Cambridge and Woolsthorpe. When Newton fitted the final piece of the puzzle to his law of gravity, it confirmed Copernicus heliocentric hypothesis. Abbiamo scelto di tracciare la storia di questo progetto World View Network intorno a Nicolò Copernico, Tycho Brahe, Johann Kepler, Galileo Galilei e Isaac Newton perché, anche se di giganti della scienza ve ne furono molti altri, questi cinque compirono i passi determinanti. La storia di come fu creata la moderna concezione dellUniverso si articola perciò in un viaggio di due secoli attraverso Frombork, nella Polonia settentrionale, lisola di Hven, nel Sound fra la Danimarca e la Svezia, la Praga capitale del Sacro Romano Impero, il grande centro culturale che fu Firenze, per giungere fino a Woolsthorpe e a Cambridge. E quando Newton collocò lultima tessera del rompicapo, la legge di gravitazione, questa tornò a confermare lipotesi eliocentrica di Copernico. English text / Testo in inglese, traduzione italiana in appendice.

Six Great Scientists:

Six Great Scientists:
Author: James Gerald Crowther
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1995
Genre: Scientists
ISBN:

Short biographies of six persons of renown in the scientific world ranging in time from the latter part of the fifteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.

Rethinking the Scientific Revolution

Rethinking the Scientific Revolution
Author: Margaret J. Osler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2000-03-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521667906

This book challenges the traditional historiography of the Scientific Revolution, probably the single most important unifying concept in the history of science. Usually referring to the period from Copernicus to Newton (roughly 1500 to 1700), the Scientific Revolution is considered to be the central episode in the history of science, the historical moment at which that unique way of looking at the world that we call 'modern science' and its attendant institutions emerged. It has been taken as the terminus a quo of all that followed. Starting with a dialogue between Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs and Richard S. Westfall, whose understanding of the Scientific Revolution differed in important ways, the papers in this volume reconsider canonical figures, their areas of study, and the formation of disciplinary boundaries during this seminal period of European intellectual history.