The early modern era produced the Scientific Revolution, which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established the conceptual foundations of modernity ...

The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and ...

Speaking before an overflow crowd of 600, Butterfield criticized the modern tendency to credit ... to look closely at the figures in the Scientific Revolution." Delivering the first Horblit ...