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radition links us with the revolutionary science of the Renaissance... we can distinguish... four major periods of advance. entred in Italy... the renewal of mechanics, anatomy, and astronomy with Leonardo, Vesalius, and Copernicus, destroying the authority of the Ancients in their central doctrines of man and the world. preading to the Low Countries, France, and Britain, beginning with Bacon, Galileo, and Descartes, and ending in Newton, hammered out a new mathematical mechanical model of the world. entred in industrial Britain and revolutionary Paris, opened... areas of experience... as... electricity... It was then that science could help... with power, machinery, and chemicals, to transform production and transport. he scientific revolution of our own time. ...he beginning of a world science, transforming old and creating new industries, permeating every aspect of human life. ...ow... we find science directly involved in the violent and terrible drama of wars and social revolution. (en) |
