The Rise of Modern Science, Volume 3Alfred Rupert Hall Collins, 1963 - Science |
Contents
Science in Transition 16301650 page | 17 |
The Galilean Revolution in Physics | 36 |
Natures Language | 78 |
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Académie Accademia del Cimento aether anatomy animal Aristotelian Aristotle astronomers attraction Bacon bodies Borelli Boyle Boyle's calculated Cartesian cause celestial centre centrifugal force chemical chemistry chemists Christiaan Huygens colours comets concept Copernican Copernicus corpuscles demonstrated Descartes Dialogues Discourses discovered discoveries distance Earth effect empiricism experimental experiments explain fact fluxions Galileo geometrical gravity Gresham College Halley Hooke Hooke's Huygens hypotheses Ibid ideas idem inertia inverse-square law Isaac Newton Kepler later Leibniz less light logical London mathe mathematical mathematician matter measure mechanical philosophy mechanistic Mersenne Merton Rule metaphysical method Micrographia microscope modern moon move nature Newtonian observation Opticks optics orbits Paris particles phenomena physiology planetary planets Principia principles problem proved rays reason refraction revolution Robert Boyle Robert Hooke Royal Society science of motion scientific scientists seemed seventeenth century stars structure supposed telescope theoretical theory things thought true truth universe velocity wrote