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Classics of modern science - Copernicus to Pasteur - cover

Classics of modern science - Copernicus to Pasteur

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Classics of Modern Science: (Copernicus to Pasteur) is an illuminating anthology that traces the intellectual revolution of modern science from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century through seminal texts by figures such as Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Harvey, Darwin, and Pasteur. Rather than merely summarizing discoveries, it presents science as a literary and philosophical enterprise, revealing how observation, experiment, and mathematical reasoning gradually displaced inherited authority. Its style is necessarily varied, reflecting the distinct voices of its contributors, yet the collection is unified by its historical arc and by its demonstration of science as a cumulative, contested tradition. Because the volume is authored by various writers, its true "author" is the scientific civilization that produced it. The selection of texts reflects an editorial commitment to showing how changing cosmologies, new instruments, medical advances, and evolving methods of proof reshaped human understanding of nature. The inclusion of thinkers from Copernicus to Pasteur suggests an interest not only in scientific results but in the emergence of modern scientific mentality itself. This book is especially recommended to readers interested in the history of ideas, intellectual history, and the foundations of scientific modernity. It offers both primary-source immediacy and a rich sense of the long transformation that made modern science possible.
Disponible desde: 29/06/2026.
Longitud de impresión: 389 páginas.

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