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
| Nicholas Lash - 1996 - 304 pages
...See Buckley, Oriijins, pp. 32(>-8. claim that the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century 'outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and the Reformation to the ranks of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval... | |
| Bernard J. F. Lonergan - 1997 - 644 pages
...of this context is for Professor Butterfield the origin of modern science and, in his judgment, '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... | |
| Brian L. Silver - 2000 - 553 pages
...Butterfield writes of the scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 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. . . . [I]t changed the character... | |
| Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 pages
...zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit vorgeschlagen worden. Herbert Butterfield zB schrieb, dass "the so-called 'scientific revolution' .... outshines everything...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mcre internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. Since it changed the character... | |
| V. Philips Long - 1999 - 634 pages
...in this regard: d39]] 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. (Butterfield 1949: vii) Mechanics... | |
| Margaret J. Osler - 2000 - 350 pages
...that Dobbs makes prominent, Whig historiography. Is it Whiggish to assert, as Herbert Butterfield did, that the Scientific Revolution "outshines everything...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements within the system of has produced products that nature cannot degrade,... | |
| David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...course of history in a direction that no man ever intended. The Englishman and His History 1944:103. [The scientific revolution] outshines everything since...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom. The Origins of Modern Science... | |
| Edward Harrison - 2000 - 586 pages
...Principle, 1986). 8 The emergence of science, says Herbert Butterfield in The Origins of Modern Science, "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity...Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes," and "looms so large as the real origin both of the modern world and the modern mentality that our customary... | |
| Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 pages
...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. . . . it changed the character... | |
| Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pages
...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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