The Scientific Revolution The Essential Readings [Paperback]

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• Introduces students to the best recent writings on the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
  
• Covers a wide range of topics including astronomy, science and religion, natural philosophy, technology, medicine and alchemy.
  
• Represents a broad range of approaches from the seminal to the innovative.
  
• Presents work by scholars who have been at the forefront of reinterpreting the Scientific Revolution.

Editor's Introduction: What was the Scientific Revolution? Marcus Hellyer (Brandeis University).

1. The Traditional Narrative of The Scientific Revolution.

Editor's Introduction.

The Riseof Modern Science: When and Why?: R. Hooykaas (Late of University of Utrecht).

2. Competing Disciplines.

Editor's Introduction.

The Copernicans and the Churches: Robert S. Westman (University of California at San Diego).

3. The Experimental Philosophy and Its Institutions.

Editor's Introduction.

Pump and Circumstance: Robert Boyle’s Literary Technology: Steven Shapin (University of California at San Deigo).

4. The Mechanical Philosophy and Its Appeal.

Editor's Introduction.

A Mechanical Microcosm: Bodily Passions, Good Manners, and Cartesian Mechanism: Peter Dear (Cornell University).

5. The Revolution in Natural History.

Editor's Introduction.

Natural History and the Emblematic World View: William B. Ashwortlã-