The Scientific Revolution Timeline

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

History of the Scientific Revolution

"History of the Scientific Revolution" delves into the transformative period between the 16th and 18th centuries that reshaped humanity's understanding of the natural world. This comprehensive exploration highlights the groundbreaking contributions of pivotal figures like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton, who challenged traditional beliefs and laid the groundwork for modern science. Readers will journey through the emergence of the scientific method, the clash between faith and reason, and the evolution of scientific thought. The book examines the societal and cultural impacts of these revolutionary ideas, revealing how they influenced not only science but also philosophy, religion, and politics. With detailed narratives and insightful analysis, this work offers a captivating look at how the Scientific Revolution catalyzed the Enlightenment and continues to resonate in today’s scientific discourse. Join us in celebrating the legacy of curiosity and innovation that defines this remarkable era.

The Scientific Revolution Revisited

The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing social environment. The Scientific Revolution was marked by the global expansion of trade by European powers and by interstate rivalries for a stake in the developing world market, in which advanced medieval China, remarkably, did not participate. It is in the wake of these happenings, in Teich's original retelling, that the Thirty Years War and the Scientific Revolution emerge as products of and factors in an uneven transition in European and world history: from natural philosophy to modern science, feudalism to capitalism, the late medieval to the early modern period. ??With a narrative that moves from pre-classical thought to the European institutionalisation of science – and a scope that embraces figures both lionised and neglected, such as Nicole Oresme, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Thaddeus Hagecius, Johann Joachim Becher – The Scientific Revolution Revisited illuminates the social and intellectual sea changes that shaped the modern world.