 Aristotelian physics — it outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom.  The Scientific Revolution - Page 1by Steven Shapin - 1996 - 218 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Diogenes Allen - 1985 - 310 pages
...The eminent historian, Herbert Butterfield, gives this assessment of the scientific revolution: It outshines everything since the rise of Christianity...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. Since it changed the character... | |
 | Roy Porter, Mikuláš Teich - 1986 - 356 pages
...not only in the eclipse of scholastic philosophy but in the destruction of Aristotelian physics - it outshines everything since the rise of Christianity...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements within the system of medieval Christendom. Comb leading nineteenth- and... | |
 | Owen Barfield - 1988 - 196 pages
...in itself to constitute the 'scientific revolution', of which Professor Butterfield has written: it outshines everything since the rise of Christianity...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom.1 When the ordinary man hears... | |
 | S. K. Biswas, D. C. V. Mallik, C. V. Vishveshwara - 1989 - 282 pages
...historian Herbert Butterfield (Origins of Modern Science) writes of the scientific revolution that, ... it outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. The Mechanical... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...looking at things will see through almost anything. Notebooks vol V Herbert Butterfleld 1900250 It [the Scientific Revolution] outshines everything since...rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and the Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval... | |
 | Arthur Robert Peacocke - 1993 - 452 pages
...historians such as Herbert Butterfield have amply demonstrated, the advent of the scientific culture 'outshines everything since the rise of Christianity...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of mediaeval Christendom.'1 Even as a purely social... | |
 | J. V. Field, Frank A. J. L. James - 1997 - 314 pages
...malice we do not care to speculate, have left it to the editors to cite Butterfield's description: it outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and the Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval... | |
 | H. Floris Cohen - 1994 - 680 pages
...resounding articulation of my student thoughts in a line which I found later to have become quite famous: [The scientific revolution] outshines everything since...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom.7 That is Herbert Butterfield,... | |
 | Francis Martin - 1994 - 484 pages
...tone for the age. Martin Luther's 34. Herbert Butterfield says of the scientific revolution that it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom." The Origins of Modern Science,... | |
 | Richard W. Hadden - 1994 - 214 pages
...not only in the eclipse of scholastic philosophy but in the destruction of Aristotelian physics—it outshines everything since the rise of Christianity...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements within the system of medieval Christendom. Since it changed the character... | |
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