ISBN: 9798186063537 - the scientific revolution and the birth of modern science: the history of copernicus galileo newton astronomy physics experiment and the new view of ... (the birth of the modern world, band 4) (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Scientific Revolution and the Birth of Modern Science tells the story of one of the greatest changes in human understanding. For centuries, many educated Europeans believed that Earth stood still at the center of an ordered universe. Ancient authorities, church tradition, and ordinary experience all seemed to support that view. Then a new way of seeing nature began to rise. This book follows the history of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and the thinkers who changed astronomy, physics, experiment, and the meaning of scientific knowledge. It explains how the Sun centered universe challenged the old geocentric cosmos, how the telescope revealed new worlds in the sky, how mathematics reshaped the study of motion, and how Newton brought gravity and planetary movement into one powerful system. From medieval universities and ancient Greek ideas to Galileo's trial and Newton's Principia, this history shows how modern science was born through observation, debate, courage, faith, conflict, and reason. It also explores how printing, instruments, scientific societies, medicine, chemistry, and technology helped create a new culture of inquiry. The Scientific Revolution did not only change what people knew about the universe. It changed how people searched for truth. Earth became a moving planet, the heavens became a field of natural law, and human knowledge entered a new age of experiment and discovery. …