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Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution: From Copernicus to Newton (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

By Wilbur Applebaum

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2000
ISBN
9780815315032, 0815315031, 0203801865, 020380189X
Open Library ID
OL8047430M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11030530 bytes)
Series
Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
Edition
Subsequent
Pages
1298\1298
Topic
History
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04
Исторические дисциплины;История науки и техники;Эн

Description

A weighty and useful summary of the dawn of the scientific era. Applebaum surveys several hundred scientists. He ends with Isaac Newton, the co-inventor of calculus and who ranks with Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time.Applebaum's choice of Newton as the endpoint of his book is instructive. Because calculus is a dividing line. Once you have this as a tool, the physical sciences and engineering become quantitative subjects. Calculus leads to a fundamental change in a worldview. Thus, the subjects of this book, who predate calculus, were by our standards, working virtually blind. Yet, Applebaum shows that they were able to gain insights into nature, and move on. In doing so, they laid the ground for Newton and the rest of us.

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