The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution
Author: Steven Shapin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 022639848X

This scholarly and accessible study presents “a provocative new reading” of the late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century advances in scientific inquiry (Kirkus Reviews). In The Scientific Revolution, historian Steven Shapin challenges the very idea that any such a “revolution” ever took place. Rejecting the narrative that a new and unifying paradigm suddenly took hold, he demonstrates how the conduct of science emerged from a wide array of early modern philosophical agendas, political commitments, and religious beliefs. In this analysis, early modern science is shown not as a set of disembodied ideas, but as historically situated ways of knowing and doing. Shapin shows that every principle identified as the modernizing essence of science—whether it’s experimentalism, mathematical methodology, or a mechanical conception of nature—was in fact contested by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century practitioners with equal claims to modernity. Shapin argues that this contested legacy is nevertheless rightly understood as the origin of modern science, its problems as well as its acknowledged achievements. This updated edition includes a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.” —Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review

Marx and Lenin

Marx and Lenin
Author: Max Eastman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1927
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Revolution in Science

Revolution in Science
Author: I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 742
Release: 1985
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674767782

Cohen's exploration seeks to uncover nothing less than the nature of all scientific revolutions, the stages by which they occur, their time scale, specific criteria for determining whether or not there has been a revolution, and the creative factors in producing a revolutionary new idea.

The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution
Author: H. Floris Cohen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1994-10-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226112802

In this first book-length historiographical study of the Scientific Revolution, H. Floris Cohen examines the body of work on the intellectual, social, and cultural origins of early modern science. Cohen critically surveys a wide range of scholarship since the nineteenth century, offering new perspectives on how the Scientific Revolution changed forever the way we understand the natural world and our place in it. Cohen's discussions range from scholarly interpretations of Galileo, Kepler, and Newton, to the question of why the Scientific Revolution took place in seventeenth-century Western Europe, rather than in ancient Greece, China, or the Islamic world. Cohen contends that the emergence of early modern science was essential to the rise of the modern world, in the way it fostered advances in technology. A valuable entrée to the literature on the Scientific Revolution, this book assesses both a controversial body of scholarship, and contributes to understanding how modern science came into the world.

Science and Revolution

Science and Revolution
Author: Ardea Skybreak
Publisher: Insight Press, Inc
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-07-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 097602361X

This wide-ranging interview with Ardea Skybreak, a scientist with professional training in ecology and evolutionary biology, spans from inquiries on science to her thoughts on the new synthesis of communism brought forward by Bob Avakian. The question and answer session provides insights into understanding the world through the lens of science and how to implement change through this knowledge. The book is broken up into sections such as "A Scientific Approach to Society, and Changing the World," "Bob Avakian--A True Scientific Visionary," and "Getting Clearer on the Need for Revolution--Breaking with Wrong Ideas and Illusions."

The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution
Author: Don Nardo
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2011-06-13
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1420506137

Author Don Nardo discusses the scientific revolution in Europe that led to what we now know as modern science. Readers will be introduced to the forerunners of modern science. They will become acquainted with advances such as the telescope and with advances in scientific methods. Newton and gravitation are covered, as well as enlightenment and beyond. Full-color photographs, maps, illustrations, timelines, and sidebars support the text.

The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution
Author: Caroline Kennon
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2018-07-15
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1534563903

The Scientific Revolution is known as the time period when modern science was born. Without the people who made discoveries, theories, and inventions during this time, the world as we know it today would not exist. Readers are introduced to the figures, discoveries, and events that defined the Scientific Revolution through annotated quotes from historians and historical documents, primary sources, fact-filled sidebars, and a detailed timeline. As readers explore this essential social studies topic, they also learn the important connections that can be made between history and STEM, broadening their view of each topic.

The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science

The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science
Author: John Henry
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2008-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137079045

This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from astronomy to zoology. The third edition has been thoroughly updated, and some sections revised and extended, to take into account the latest scholarship and research and new developments in historiography.