The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

by Lawrence M. Principe

Book Overview

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the "Scientific Revolution." New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, experimentation and contemplation. Explanatory systems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199567417
• ISBN13: 9780199567416
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.7"