The Scientific Revolution: A Brief History with Documents (Paperback)

Foreword.- Preface.- List of Illustrations.- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION.- Why Did the Scientific Revolution Happen?.- Aristotle Ptolemy, and their Early Modern Defenders.- Exploration and Technical Innovation.- The Emergence of the Scientific Revolution.- The New Science.- The Mechanical Philosophy.- Newtonian Science.- Reconciling, Science, Religion, and Magic.- Spreading the Scientific Revolution.- Conclusion: The Long Road to Acceptance.- PART TWO: THE DOCUMENTS.- Nicolaus Copernicus, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs, 1543.- Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, 1605.- Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration, 1620.- Galileo Galilei, The Starry Messenger, 1610.- William Harvey, On The Motion Of The Heart And Blood In Animals, 1628.- Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method, 1637.- Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, 1660.- Robert Boyle, A Free-Enquiry into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature, 1686.- Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, Of the Formation of the Teeth in Several Animals; the Structure of the Human Teeth Explained, 1683.- Isaac Newton, Letter to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1672.- Isaac Newton, Selections from Principia, 1687 .- Isaac Newton, Thirty-first Query to the Opticks, 1718.- Christiaan Huygens, The Celestial Worlds Discovered, 1698.- Maria Sibylla Merian, Letter of 1702.- Maria Sibylla Merian, Butterfly, Hawk-moth, Caterpillar Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1713-14.- Jean Desaguliers, Physico-Mechanical Lectures, 1717.- Benjamin Franklin, Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made in Philadelphia in America, 1751.- Appendixes.- A Chronology of the Scientific Revolution (1514-1752).- Questions for Consideration.- Selected Bibliography.- Index.