TY - BOOK AU - Butterfield,Herbert TI - The origins of modern science: 1300-1800 AV - Q125.B988.O754 1959 PY - 1959/// (c)1957 CY - New York PB - Macmillan KW - Science KW - History KW - Philosophy N1 - Nabu Public Domain Reprints; Introduction --; The historical importance of a theory of impetus --; The conservatism of Copernicus --; The study of the heart down to William Harvey --; The downfall of Aristotle and Ptolemy --; The experimental method in the seventeenth century --; Bacon and Descartes --; The effect of the scientific revolution on the non-mechanical sciences --; The history of the modern theory of gravitation --; The transition to the Philosophe movement in the reign of Louis XIV --; The place of the scientific revolution in the history of western civilization --; The postponed scientific revolution in chemistry --; Ideas of progress and ideas of evolution; 2 ER -