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The 87 pages that link to Scientific Revolution, each with the reason it gives.
AristotleCompared with: New methods and findings displaced several Aristotelian accounts of motion and nature.
Isaac NewtonNarrower topic: Newton’s synthesis became a landmark culmination of this transformation.
Printing pressRelated: Printed books and diagrams helped standardize and circulate scientific claims.
Royal SocietyNarrower topic: The Society became one institutional expression of this transformation in natural knowledge.
RenaissanceRelated: Renaissance textual scholarship and observation formed part of the intellectual background to later scientific change.
AristotelianismNarrower topic: Its new mathematical and experimental approaches weakened the authority of Aristotelian natural philosophy.
Italian RenaissanceRelated: Renaissance observation, mathematics, and classical learning contributed to later changes in natural philosophy.
Johannes KeplerNarrower topic: Kepler’s work helped replace inherited celestial ideals with mathematical, evidence-based models.
Antoine LavoisierNarrower topic: Its experimental and mathematical traditions helped set the stage for Lavoisier’s eighteenth-century chemistry.
History of booksRelated: Printed books enabled findings, diagrams, and methods to circulate among scholars.
History of scienceBroader topic: It marks the emergence of many methods and institutions associated with modern science.
Francis BaconNarrower topic: Bacon’s reform program became one influential voice in debates over how natural knowledge should advance.
Robert BoyleNarrower topic: Boyle’s experimental work formed part of the era’s transformation of natural knowledge.
ModernityRelated: New methods of inquiry weakened inherited accounts of nature and knowledge.
Movable typeRelated: Printed works helped circulate observations, diagrams, and arguments among scholars.
Galileo affairNarrower topic: The affair became a lasting episode in transformations of astronomy and scientific authority.
HeliocentrismNarrower topic: Heliocentrism became a defining example of this period’s transformation of natural philosophy.
NaturalismRelated: Its mathematical and experimental methods strengthened natural explanations of physical phenomena.
Copernican heliocentrismNarrower topic: The model became a landmark in a broader transformation of explanations about nature.
History of mathematicsRelated: Mathematical methods became central to new accounts of motion and nature.
Open scienceNarrower topic: The development of shared methods and public scientific communication has deeper historical roots.
Scientific journalRelated: New methods and communities of inquiry created demand for regular scientific reporting.
Aristotelian cosmologyNarrower topic: New astronomy and mechanics displaced the Aristotelian division between terrestrial and celestial motion.
Natural philosophyBroader topic: New mathematical, experimental, and institutional practices helped separate natural science from older philosophy.
Cabinet of curiositiesRelated: New observation and classification reshaped how collectors interpreted natural objects.
French EnlightenmentNarrower topic: Its mathematical and experimental methods informed Enlightenment confidence in inquiry.
Pendulum clockNarrower topic: The clock emerged amid growing efforts to measure natural phenomena precisely.
Technological changeRelated: New methods of inquiry increasingly connected scientific knowledge with practical invention.
GeocentrismNarrower topic: The decline of geocentrism formed part of this broader change in astronomy and natural philosophy.
Early modern periodRelated: New methods and accounts of nature altered learned authority during this period.
Republic of LettersNarrower topic: The network helped circulate observations and arguments during these changes.
Scientific instrumentNarrower topic: The spread of instruments accompanied new practices of observation, experiment, and mathematical description.
Copernican RevolutionNarrower topic: The Copernican transformation became a defining episode in this broader change.
Deferent and epicycleNarrower topic: New observations and planetary theories displaced the model’s traditional authority.
History of astronomyRelated: Debates over planetary motion helped change standards of evidence and explanations of nature.
Jean-Paul MaratRelated: Marat pursued experiments and published on physical science before the Revolution reshaped his public career.
Science and religionRelated: Its religious and political settings complicate stories of science emerging against faith.
Mechanical philosophyNarrower topic: Mechanical philosophy developed within this broader transformation of natural knowledge.
Baroque literatureRelated: New accounts of nature and the cosmos intensified literary questions about knowledge and instability.
Age of EnlightenmentNarrower topic: Its methods and discoveries helped make empirical inquiry a model for Enlightenment knowledge.
Gerard of CremonaNarrower topic: The translated astronomical and philosophical traditions Gerard helped transmit formed part of its distant intellectual inheritance.
Print cultureRelated: Printed books and journals helped circulate observations and arguments across distances.
English RenaissanceRelated: English Renaissance scholarship helped prepare institutions and methods later associated with this transformation.
History of chemistryCompared with: Chemistry’s gradual development tests narratives that divide science into abrupt revolutions.
Industrial societyRelated: New approaches to experiment and mechanical knowledge contributed to technologies later applied in industry.
Natural scienceRelated: New mathematical and experimental approaches helped shape modern natural science.
University of PaduaRelated: Padua’s teaching and scholars contributed to the experimental culture associated with this transformation.
Western philosophyRelated: New sciences transformed philosophical accounts of nature, evidence, and the limits of human knowledge.
Natural magicNarrower topic: Changing standards of evidence and causation narrowed the intellectual space for natural magic.
Philosophy of natureRelated: Its mathematical and experimental sciences changed what philosophical explanations of nature had to address.