An introduction to a large and complicated subject, which has come to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the fundamental changes in our understanding of the natural world that occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These changes led to a rejection of ancient and medieval thinking about the universe in favor of the new thinking that gave birth to modern science.Professor Jacob does not pretend to tell the whole story of this momentous transformation, which is perhaps more important than any other in modern history. But he does highlight and survey what are often considered to be the six principal developments associated with this shift from old to new science. The six changes are: first, the abandonment of an ancient Greek picture of an earth-centered universe and its replacement by the modern picture of a solar system surrounded by an enormous universe; second, the gradual rejection of the Aristotelian binary physics in favor of the modern physics of universal forces; third, a medical revolution that culminated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood, and put animal (and human) physiology on a new foundation; fourth, the shift from an Aristotelian theory of knowledge to a modern skepticism; fifth, the development of new methods for establishing scientific certainty; and, finally, the founding of the world's first national, government-sponsored scientific societies for promoting research, spreading scientific knowledge, and stimulating inquiry.

The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700 (Control of Nature)

Jacob, James R.

History

Prometheus+books

Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics and Society from the 1400's by Marvin Perry; Myrna Chase; James R. Jacob; Margaret C. Jacob; Theodore H. Von Laue

Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics and Society from the 1400's

Chase, Myrna

Jacob, Margaret C.

Von Laue, Theodore H.

Perry,Marvin

World

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Western Civilization: Ideas, Policies & Society

Western Civilization, Volume 1 Sixth Edition

Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics & Society: To 1789

Politics & Social Sciences

Bock, George W.

Anthropology

Houghton, Mifflin Company

Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics & Society From the 1400, Sixth Edition

Called 'the most noted person of his age' by Anthony Wood, Henry Stubbe (1632-76), classicist, polemicist, physician, philosopher and the most important critic of the early Royal Society, has never had a biography. This study seeks to fill that gap, while standing received opinion about him on its head. The older view has it that at the Restoration Stubbe renounced his radical past and became the enemy of scientific progress and a reactionary defender of church and monarchy. Professor Jacob shows instead that Stubbe continued to espouse radical views after 1660 by devious means. Publicly he resorted to a rhetoric of subterfuge, while he let the full extent of his radicalism be known in private conversations at Bath and in an important clandestine manuscript (which Jacob proves to be his) that circulated among radicals from the early 1670s well into the eighteenth century.

Henry Stubbe, Radical Protestantism and the Early Enlightenment

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

Europe

This text presents the Western intellectual tradition within a chronology of political history. Its accessible writing style appeals to students and instructors because of its brevity, simplicity of presentation, selective choice of content, and clear explanations.
Comparative timelines appear at the end of each text part to show the relationship between the political and intellectual history of the West. A full-color map with an essay on physical geography appears at the beginning of each volume to help students orient themselves to European geography. Primary source excerpts integrated throughout the narrative show students the materials that historians work with every day.
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New! The authors reorganized and revised the final chapters of the text to incorporate the latest scholarship. Chapter 34 now begins with the fall of Communism in 1989 and covers important recent events, including ethnic cleansing and the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the European Union and issues of globalization and immigration and the resurgence of right wing parties. New material on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the September 11 attacks, and the resulting war on terror has been added.</li>
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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics & Society (One-Volume Edition)

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Western Civilization: Ideas Politics and Society from the 1600s Chapters 16-34

Laue, Theodore H. Von

Perry's Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics & Society

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