• 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

  • By: Captivating History
  • Narrated by: Kevin Hung-Liang
  • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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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

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Narrated by: Kevin Hung-Liang
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then pay attention...

Ancient cultures have been looking up at the stars for thousands of years, wondering about their place in the universe. What were those glowing spots in the black cover of night? Just how far away was the moon? These and other questions hounded humanity through the millennia until, finally, relative economic stability allowed for a number of people to examine their world more closely. Slowly, knowledge and understanding accumulated generation by generation until the conditions were ideal enough for a revolution to occur in thinking, experimentation, worldview, and natural philosophy.

In 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, you will discover topics such as:

  • 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
  • Mary Somerville
  • And much, much more!

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Dull and superficial

It is basically a series of very short and superficial biographies of the main characters in the scientific revolution, with no overall message or theme. Each little biography is completely disconnected from the others. It reads like a very dull textbook.

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Great book with a lot of unique insight

Illuminating with a lively style and engaging prose. It has inspired me to read much more on this subject, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

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An excellent and revolutionary book.

This is a much-quoted book on the philosophy of science. One of the most influential books on how science is actually done.

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for those with a bit of a philosophical ...

Just started to listening to this audiobook, and inspired by some of the ideas. I believe listener will find something useful for themselves.I was provided a free copy of this audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review

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A masterpiece of philosophy of science.

Every member of the scientific community should read this book. This book provides a framework to think about science and its progress.I was given a free review copy of this audio book at my request.

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It is fundamental book

If you want to know know the world works, this audiobook goes a long way in helping. Current paradigms and the way they ignore "anomalies" are particularly understandable after listening.I got a free review copy of this audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left a review.

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Best book and timely delivery

Great overview at the beginning of how Kuhn's work fits into the structure of scientific revolutions now.I received a free review copy of this audio book and have voluntarily left this review.

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Worked for Class

I thought this book was interesting, but a bit slow. It worked very well for class, though, It was written for professional philosophers of science and not for popular perusal.

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My favorite book since the 60s

Still a classic. A revolutionary perspective on learning that has ramifications far beyond its content. Educators, take note!

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Important book for all scientists

Being a book on European history it devotes a good portion of the material to Europeans outside of Europe. This book would be useful as a introductory course textbook at the undergraduate level.

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