This heavily revised third edition of an award-winning text offers a keen insight into the development of scientific thought in early modern Europe.
Highlighting Europe\'s colonial and trade expansion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Peter Dear traces the revolution.
Including coverage of the central scientific figures of the time, including Copernicus, Kelper, Galileo, Newton and Bacon, this book provides a comprehensive overview of how the Scientific Revolution happened and why.
This heavily revised third edition of an award-winning text offers a keen insight into the development of scientific thought in early modern Europe