The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics by Richard S. Westfall

The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics

Richard S. Westfall

190 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two major themes. The Platonic-Pythagorean tradition looked on nature in geometric terms with t...

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