Benjamin Franklin's Enlightenment world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity.
Revolutions in Science Series
This series delves into the tumultuous periods of scientific discovery that reshaped our understanding of the universe. It explores not only the groundbreaking ideas themselves but also the personal struggles and societal upheavals that accompanied them. Witness how scientific truth often emerged from battles against established dogma, profoundly altering the course of civilization. Readers will experience the dramatic shifts in humanity's intellectual journey.
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In 1628, William Harvey announced to the world his discovery of the circulation of the blood. Over 100 years before the Industrial revolution, man began to be understood using mechanical metaphors and Harvey's discoveries were integral to this. But Harvery himself descended from the Aristotelian tradition of anatomy. How did this great revolution come about?
Moving Heaven and Earth
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
Given that the earth very definitely seems to be stationary, and given that even in our own time, the mathematical and astronomical procidures used by navigatiors to calculate their positions assume that the earth is stationary, what could have driven Copernicus to insist that the earth must be in motion?
