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Product Description: In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler’s radical break from scientific and epistemological traditions and shows how the seventeenth-century astronomer posited new ways to view scientific truth and knowledge...read more

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9780271070988, titled "Measuring Shadows: Kepler’s Optics of Invisibility" | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 29, 2016, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology.

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9780521258791, titled "Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance" | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $59.50 | also contains Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance

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By Marc Boutavant (illustrator)

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9781592701742 | Enchanted Lion Books, June 30, 2015, cover price $17.95
9780391039773, titled "The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700" | Prometheus Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $39.95 | also contains The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700

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Product Description: An introduction to a large and complicated subject, which has come to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the fundamental changes in our understanding of the natural world that occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries...read more
By Sam Bosma (illustrator)

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9780391039780, titled "The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700" | Prometheus Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $12.50 | also contains The Scientific Revolution: Aspirations and Achievements, 1500-1700 | About this edition: An introduction to a large and complicated subject, which has come to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the fundamental changes in our understanding of the natural world that occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Product Description: This book traces the development of the idea that the sciences were morally enlightening through an intellectual history of the secrétaires perpétuels of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and their associates from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century...read more

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9781611494747 | Univ of Delaware Pr, November 29, 2013, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This book traces the development of the idea that the sciences were morally enlightening through an intellectual history of the secrétaires perpétuels of the French Royal Academy of Sciences and their associates from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth century.

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Product Description: The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific thought has never been properly acknowledged. Surprisingly free from the constraints of traditional natural philosophy, he developed a view of the world in which everything, from the motion of the heavens to musical harmonies, is explained by reducing it to matter in motion...read more

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9781421409368 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 17, 2013, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The contribution of the Dutch craftsman and scholar Isaac Beeckman to early modern scientific thought has never been properly acknowledged.

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By Robert Curley (editor)

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9781615308804 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2012, cover price $38.75

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9780393064476 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 26, 2011, cover price $26.95

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9780393343403 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 4, 2012), cover price $16.95

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Product Description: From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and reputation remained unquestioned for long...read more
By Victor D. Boantza (editor)

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9789027218957 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 15, 2011, cover price $158.00 | About this edition: From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and reputation remained unquestioned for long.

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Product Description: The creation story in Genesis is a crucial datum in Western thought. From late antiquity to the early modern era, scripture was understood to contain sufficient knowledge about all subjects, from morality to the secrets of nature, making the creation story in Genesis a source for ideas about natural processes and matter...read more

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9780404623456 | Ams Pr Inc, September 30, 2010, cover price $92.50 | About this edition: The creation story in Genesis is a crucial datum in Western thought.

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Product Description: A cogent portrayal of a turning point in the evolution of the freedom of thought and the beginnings of modern science. Celebrated, controversial, condemned, Galileo Galilei is a seminal figure in the history of science. Both Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein credit him as the first modern scientist...read more

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9780393066500 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 26, 2009, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A cogent portrayal of the beginnings of modern science and a turning point in the evolution of the freedom of thought.

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9780393338201 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, May 10, 2010), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A cogent portrayal of a turning point in the evolution of the freedom of thought and the beginnings of modern science.

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9781890951672 | 1 edition (Zone Books, December 1, 2006), cover price $36.95

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9781890951689 | Reprint edition (Zone Books, March 31, 2010), cover price $24.95

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9781402769771, titled "Renaissance Genius: Galileo Galilei & His Legacy to Modern Science" | Sterling Pub Co Inc, November 3, 2009, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the revolutions of Galileo and Darwin. Mark Brake captures the adventure and excitement of these two scientists in this is a timely examination of the ways in which faith and science clash, and how the battle for 'truth' is a perennial one...read more

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9780230202689, titled "Revolution in Science: How Galileo and Darwin Changed Our World" | Palgrave Macmillan, December 15, 2009, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: This is the compelling story of the two biggest events in the evolution of ideas: the revolutions of Galileo and Darwin.

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Product Description: A time of questions and new ways of thinking marked the scientific world during the Renaissance. Suitable for the children of ages 11 to 12 years, this title helps you learn how the role of a scientist evolved. It shows the efforts made to increase man's understanding of the natural universe...read more

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9780778746140 | Crabtree Pub Co, January 15, 2009, cover price $8.95

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9780778745945 | Crabtree Pub Co, January 15, 2009, cover price $26.60 | About this edition: A time of questions and new ways of thinking marked the scientific world during the Renaissance.

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A biographical portrait of the Renaissance genius focuses on the scientific accomplishments of Leonardo da Vinci, examining thousands of pages of his surviving notebooks to describe his contributions to the study of human anatomy, engineering, the scientific method, optics, urban design, military technology, flight, and other key fields. 35,000 first printing.

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9780385513906 | Doubleday, October 30, 2007, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A biographical portrait of the Renaissance genius focuses on the scientific accomplishments of Leonardo da Vinci, examining thousands of pages of his surviving notebooks to describe his contributions to the study of human anatomy, engineering, the scientific method, optics, urban design, military technology, flight, and other key fields.

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9781400078837 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, December 2, 2008), cover price $18.00

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9780300111965 | 1 edition (Yale Univ Pr, October 24, 2007), cover price $32.50

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9780300143164 | Yale Univ Pr, October 28, 2008, cover price $20.00

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9780881353761 | Science History Pubns, September 1, 2003, cover price $39.95

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9780881353778, titled "Designing Experiments and Games of Chance: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal" | Science History Pubns, October 9, 2008, cover price $19.95

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9780226620879 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 15, 2006, cover price $51.00

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9780226620886 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 15, 2008, cover price $34.00

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In this examination of the ways in which alchemy and chemistry were studied and practiced between 1400 and 1700, the author looks to determine what alchemists were doing in the context of early modern science.

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9780674014954 | Harvard Univ Pr, January 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this examination of the ways in which alchemy and chemistry were studied and practiced between 1400 and 1700, the author looks to determine what alchemists were doing in the context of early modern science.

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9780674022492 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 1, 2006, cover price $24.00

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