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... The Scientific Revolution was the effect of a unique series of innovations in scientific ideas and methods ; it gave the key to the understanding of the structure and relations of things . It was ( and still remains )
... The Scientific Revolution was the effect of a unique series of innovations in scientific ideas and methods ; it gave the key to the understanding of the structure and relations of things . It was ( and still remains )
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... effect on the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , when medieval science seemed to have be- come sterile , although more justice must be done than the Ren- aissance allowed to the permanent merits of medieval scientific thought ...
... effect on the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries , when medieval science seemed to have be- come sterile , although more justice must be done than the Ren- aissance allowed to the permanent merits of medieval scientific thought ...
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Contents
SCIENCE IN TRANSITION 16301650 | 17 |
THE GALILEAN REVOLUTION IN PHYSICS | 36 |
NATURES LANGUAGE | 78 |
THE METHOD OF SCIENCE | 103 |
FLORENCE LONDON PARIS | 132 |
EXPLORING THE LARGE AND THE SMALL | 155 |
PROBLEMS OF LIVING THINGS | 175 |
ELEMENTS AND PARTICLES | 216 |
EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS | 244 |
NEWTON AND THE WORLD OF LAW | 276 |
THE AGE OF NEWTON | 307 |
EPILOGUE | 329 |
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