Intellectual curiosity and the Scientific Revolution
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Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521170524
ISBN13:9780521170529
Release Date:October 2010
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:368 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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