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What this book knows
The Scientific Revolution remade knowledge by fusing ancient learning, religious incentive, craft practice, and institutional ambition into modern natural philosophy.
transformation
The Muslim world had become heir to ancient Greek knowledge, translated it into Arabic, and enriched it many times over with new discoveries and ideas.
VLA-F7E613CB-RC-009Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the centre of the planetary system — the Earth rotates on its axis once a day.
VLA-F7E613CB-RC-037faith-and-doubt
The deep religious and devotional incentive that motivated early modern natural philosophers to study the Book of Nature no longer provides a major driving force for scientific research.
VLA-F7E613CB-RC-098The year 1517 marks the beginning of a deep, often violent, and continuing rupture within Christianity.
VLA-F7E613CB-RC-017obedience-and-authority
Most great natural philosophers of the period were doctors of theology: the medieval university shaped the intellectual life of Western Europe.
VLA-F7E613CB-RC-010Cabinets of curiosities functioned to display the power, wealth, connections, and interests of their collectors and to invoke wonder at the marvellous.
VLA-F7E613CB-RC-082Illuminates
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