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Books
- Grayling, A. C. (2016) The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind. Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition. | Google Book Preview
- From Amazon: Grayling vividly reconstructs this unprecedented era and breathes new life into the major figures of the seventeenth century intelligentsia who span literature, music, science, art, and philosophy--Shakespeare, Monteverdi, Galileo, Rembrandt, Locke, Newton, Descartes, Vermeer, Hobbes, Milton, and Cervantes, among many more. During this century, a fundamentally new way of perceiving the world emerged as reason rose to prominence over tradition, and the rights of the individual took center stage in philosophy and politics, a paradigmatic shift that would define Western thought for centuries to come.
- Principe L. (2011) The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press; 2011. | Google Book Preview
- From Amazon: The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed such fervent investigations of the natural world that the period has been called the 'Scientific Revolution.' New ideas and discoveries not only redefined what human beings believed, knew, and could do, but also forced them to redefine themselves with respect to the strange new worlds revealed by ships and scalpels, telescopes and microscopes, experimentation and contemplation. Driven by religious devotion, by practical need, by the promise of fame and profit, or by the simple desire to know, a broad range of thinkers and workers explored and reconceptualized the world around them. Explanatory systems were made, discarded, and remade by some of the best-known names in the entire history of science - Copernicus, Galileo, Newton - and by many others less recognized but no less important.
- Greenblatt S. (2011) The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. New York: W.W. Norton; 2011. | Google Book Preview
- Wootton D. (2015) The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. London: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books; 2015. | Google Book Preview
- Milne C. (2011) The Invention of Science: Why History of Science Matters for the Classroom. Rotterdam ; Boston: Sense Publishers; 2011. | Google Book Preview
Book chapters
Schuster JA. (1996) The Scientific Revolution. Chapter 15 in Companion to the History of Modern Science. Editors: Cantor GN, Christie JRR, Hodge MJS, Olby RC. Publisher: Routledge; New Ed edition (August 14, 1996) | Google book preview of Chapter 15 at page 217