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050 04 $aQ125$b.B97 1957a
100 1 $aButterfield, Herbert,$d1900-1979.
245 14 $aThe origins of modern science, 1300-1800 /$cby H. Butterfield.
250 $a[Rev. ed.]
260 0 $aNew York :$bMacmillan,$c1959, c1957.
300 $a242 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aBibliography: p. 235-237.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience$xPhilosophy.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aButterfield, Herbert, Sir, 1900-$tOrigins of modern science, 1300-1800.$b[Rev. ed.]$dNew York : Macmillan, 1958$w(OCoLC)812213714
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