The Scientific Revolution Revisited
by Mikulas Teich
Publisher: Open Book Publishers 2012
ISBN-13: 9781783741243
Number of pages: 158
Description:
Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing social environment.
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