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Scientific Revolution
- A Captivating Guide to the Emergence of Modern Science During the Early Modern Period and the Life of Galileo Galilei
- Narrated by: Kevin Hung-Liang
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
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Publisher's summary
If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then pay attention...
Two captivating manuscripts in one audiobook:
- The Scientific Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Emergence of Modern Science During the Early Modern Period, Including Stories of Thinkers Such as Isaac Newton and René Descartes
- Galileo Galilei: A Captivating Guide to an Italian Astronomer, Physicist, and Engineer and His Impact on the History of Science
Some of the topics covered in part one of this audiobook include:
- Science: A Definition and Brief Prehistory
- The Early Western Sciences
- Paracelsus
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Luigi Anguillara
- Andreas Vesalius
- Ignazio Danti
- Tycho and Sophia Brahe
- Paul Wittich
- Sethus Calvisius
- Joseph Goedenhuyze
- Giordano Bruno
- Conrad Gessner
- Johannes Kepler
- Daniel Sennert
- Galileo Galilei
- William Harvey
- René Descartes
- Robert Boyle
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- Isaac Newton
- Robert Hooke
- Maria Sibylla Merian
- Maria Winckelmann-Kirch
- William and Caroline Herschel
- Mary Somerville
- And much, much more!
Some of the topics covered in part two of this audiobook include:
- A Stargazer Is Born
- Galileo Studies with Florentine Monks
- The University of Pisa
- Galileo Calculates the Location of Hell
- Professor at the University of Pisa
- University of Padua
- The Catholic Inquisition
- Kepler’s Star
- And much, much more!
So if you want to learn more about the Scientific Revolution and Galileo Galilei, buy this audiobook now!
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- NickolasOsborne
- 07-29-20
Excellent audiobook.
I would highly advise it to all with a technical interest. The survey was also helpful but a bit neurotic about the value of "paradigm."
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- TeresaStone
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Amazing guide
Mind-blowing, must audible. Wish I read this 10 years ago where I could have utilized it to many things I was learning.
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- Pat Newell
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great info, worst narratorever.
This is a quick into to the lives of some of the first true Western scientists, that allowed me to decide whom I would like to read more about to understand their contributions more thoroughly. I have to say tho, that any narrator who pronounces heresy "here say", or Jesuit as "jes suit", let alone mispronouncing covetous, Eton, beget, rhetoric or any number of common words should never have gotten the job. I was appalled and distracted by the constant mispronunciations of words any experienced narrator should have been familiar with and know how to pronounce correctly. It was so bad I had to go back and forth several times to be sure I could glean what he meant. And his style had all the excitement and enthusiasm of someone reading the phone book.
Despite this, the info made it very worthwhile and I give the overview 5 stars.
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good book
Great summary at the beginning of how captivating's work provides into the construction of scientific changes now.
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- TriciaHolsinger
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A remarkable book
I highly suggest this audiobook as it gives much more knowledge of how scientists work and what their results mean. I need more people who had the kind of perception of the scientific method that one gets from this book.
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- CynthiaGill
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Five Stars
However one of my most important audible after 50 years alongside The Social Construction of Truth.
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- DebraRoy
- 07-29-20
terrific guide
This audiobook presents at least a peek at how the method might occur. It could yet improve the listener's logical thinking and healthy suspicion.
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- KarenKaren
- 07-29-20
Classic
This fundamental work is a compelling audible for young scholars trying to explain the nature of a field of research and their place in it.
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- KingLopez
- 07-29-20
An excellent and revolutionary book.
An amazing audiobook for those with a bit of a philosophical mindset. I love philosophy and that too in science is something unusual for me.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-29-20
This is a fantastic Insightful book
I have delivered multiple examples of this book to exactly minded friends. It gives many insights into how non-mainstream ideas-concepts finally gain approval.
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