Scientific Revolution

Sir Isaac Newton was an English polymath who was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, author and inventor. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics. Newton also made seminal contributions to optics, and shares credit with the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for formulating infinitesimal calculus, although he developed calculus years before Leibniz. Newton contributed to and refined the scientific method, and his work is considered the most influential in bringing forth modern science.

period of European history and cultural movement of the 17th and 18th centuries

techniques used in the construction and testing of scientific hypotheses; in particular mathematical and experimental techniques employed in the natural sciences

events that marked the emergence of modern science in the early modern period

The , better known as the Encyclopédie (), was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, an index, and translations. It had many contributors, known among contemporaries as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

major library and cultural center in Alexandria, Egypt

French philosopher (1892–1964)

fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline.

intellectual movement in 18th–19th century Scotland

Belief, initiated by Copernicus, that planets orbit the sun

1962 essay by Thomas Kuhn

1784 essay by Immanuel Kant

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Science during the 16th-19th century

principle that scientific change is generational

non-fiction work by Thomas Browne

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non-fiction work by David Deutsch

British historian of science