The Scientific Revolution

From Copernicus and Galileo to Newton: the birth of modern science.

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1. The Scientific Revolution

How Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton dismantled the ancient Aristotelian cosmos over a century and a half and, in its place, founded the mathematical, experimental method that still defines modern science.