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" 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 1
by Steven Shapin - 1996 - 218 pages
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The Beginning and the End of 'Religion'

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...
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The Lonergan Reader

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...
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The Ascent of Science

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...
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Sinndeutung und Periodisierung der Geschichte: eine systematische Ub̈ersicht ...

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...
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Israel's Past in Present Research: Essays on Ancient Israelite Historiography

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...
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Rethinking the Scientific Revolution

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,...
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Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where

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...
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Cosmology: The Science of the Universe

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...
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Time for Science Education: How Teaching the History and Philosophy of ...

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...
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Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond

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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