Scientific Revolution


Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Discourse on Method
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)
Astronomia Nova
Harmonies of the World (On the Shoulders of Giants, Book 5)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Scientific Revolution: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Cultural Editions Series)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series)
Principles of Philosophy
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Owen Barfield
Before the scientific revolution, [man] did not feel himself isolated by his skin from the world outside to quite the same extent that we do. He was integrated, or mortised into it, each different part of him being united to a different part of it by some invisible thread. In his relation to his environment, the man of the middle ages was rather less like an island, rather more like an embryo.
Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry

Abhijit Naskar
If you bring electricity to a marginalized community with a simple solar power kit, it's a far greater scientific achievement than the gargantuan glories of the LHC. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

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