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What Galileo Saw: Imagining the Scientific Revolution
By Lipking, Lawrence
- ISBN
- 9780801452970
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ.
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Reviewed on October 15, 2014 | Science and Technology
Some believe that the scientific revolution beginning in early 17th-century Europe demystified and rationalized existence, undermined metaphysical certitude, and took all the joy, magic, and imagination out of the world—the universe became solely material. Not so, argues Lipking (English, Northwestern Univ.; Samuel Johnson: The Life of An Author), who posits that the scientific revolution was more complicated than the standard narrative of progress and di...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
