Acknowledgments |
iv |
PREFACE TO THE SERIES |
vi |
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PART ONE Precursors Of Science: From Ancient Times To The Middle Ages |
1 |
1. Legacies from Ancient Peoples |
3 |
2. From Aristotle to the High Middle Ages (322 B.C.-A.D. 1449) |
19 |
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PART TWO The Physical Sciences |
31 |
3. The Universe Turned Outside-In: Copernicus, Tycho and Kepler |
33 |
4. A "Vast and Most Excellent Science": Galileo and the Beginnings of Method
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51 |
5. Newton, the Laws of Motion and the "Newtonian Revolution" |
65 |
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PART THREE The Life Sciences |
79 |
6. The Anatomists: From Vesalius to Fabricius |
81 |
7. Paracelsus, Pharmaceuticals and Medicine |
91 |
8. The Heart of the Matter: William Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood |
99 |
9. Looking at the Very Small: The World of the 17th-Century Microscopists |
111 |
10. Understanding the Diversity of Life |
123 |
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Epilogue |
135 |
Chronology |
137 |
Glossary |
149 |
Further Reading |
155 |
Index |
159 |