Scientific Revolution


Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Discourse on Method
On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (On the Shoulders of Giants)
Astronomia Nova
Harmonies of the World (On the Shoulders of Giants, Book 5)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Scientific Revolution: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Cultural Editions Series)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World (Great Minds Series)
Principles of Philosophy
Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Jonathan Wells
The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most: American taxpayers. The outcome of this scientific revolution will be decided by young people who have the courage to question dogmatism and follow the evidence wherever it leads.
Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

James Gleick
For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed until Isaac Newton appropriated words that were ancient and vague—force, mass, motion, and even time—and gave them new meanings. Newton made these terms into quantities, suitable for use in mathematical formulas. Until then, motion (for example) had been just as soft and inclusive a term as information. For Aristotelians, motion covered a far-flung fami ...more
James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

More quotes...