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Category Archives: The Scientific Revolution
Newton 1713
Isaac Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica (London, 1713), 2nd ed. This is the 2nd edition of Newton’s masterwork in physics. The Copernican idea that the Earth moves as a planet required a thorough revision of physics. Galileo undertook this task … Continue reading
Copernicus 1566
Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Basel, 1566), 2d ed. Copernicus argued that the Sun rather than the Earth lies in the center of the universe. The Earth moves as a planet around the Sun, carrying its Moon along as … Continue reading
The Scientific Revolution
Galileo’s World at a GlanceGallery at the Exhibit WebsiteLocation: Schusterman Library, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa. What is nature? How is nature known? When Galileo announced that “mathematics is the language of nature,” he was making a then-controversial claim about how … Continue reading
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