LibGuides: Modern World History: Scientific Revolution

Scholarly Sources within the JSCC Library

Kepler and the Universe: How One Man Revolutionized Astronomy by David K. Love; Richard Ellis (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781633881068
A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy. This colorful, well-researched biography brings the man and his scientific discoveries to life, showing how his contributions were every bit as important as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. It was Kepler who first advocated the completely new concept of a physical force emanating from the sun that controls the motion of the planets--today we call this gravity and take it for granted.
The Scientific Revolution Revisited by Mikulá Teich
ISBN: 9781783741229
The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing social environment. The Scientific Revolution was marked by the global expansion of trade by European powers and by interstate rivalries for a stake in the developing world market, in which advanced medieval China, remarkably, did not participate.
The Making of Copernicus : Early Modern Transformations of a Scientist and His Science by Wolfgang Neuber (Volume Editor); Claus Zittel (Volume Editor); Thomas Rahn (Volume Editor)
ISBN: 9789004281103
What Galileo Saw : Imagining the Scientific Revolution by Lawrence Lipking
ISBN: 9780801452970
The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world.
Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man by Catherine Drinker Bowen
ISBN: 9780823215386
The portrait Bowen paints of this controversial man, Francis Bacon (1561-1626), balances the outward life and actions of Bacon with the seemingly contradictory aspects of his refined philosophical reflections. As Lord Chancellor of England, Bacon was impeached by Parliament for taking bribes in office, convicted, and banished from London and the law courts.
The Dark Side of Isaac Newton: Science's Greatest Fraud? by Nick Kollerstrom
ISBN: 9781526740540
Publication Date: 2019
Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science. The real human being behind the demi-god image has tended to be lost. He was a person who took credit from others and crushed the reputations of those to whom he owed most. This most brilliant of mathematicians could alas be devious, deceptive, and duplicitous. This work doesn't go looking at unpublished alchemical musings as is nowadays fashionable, rather it sticks to the historical record.

As Big as a Universe: Johannes Kepler on the Immensities of Stars and of Divine Power.
Johannes Kepler accepted Tycho Brahe's claim that the Copernican hypothesis required all stars to be giant, something Brahe found absurd. Kepler argued in his De Stella Nova that some stars were larger than Brahe's size for the entire universe. He also used the issue of star sizes to argue against Giordano Bruno's infinite universe. Kepler's acceptance of Brahe's ideas on star sizes appears in a variety of his writings, including his response to the anti-Copernican essay by Msgr. Francesco Ingoli cited the star size issue, an essay Galileo had felt was influential in the rejection of the Copernican hypothesis by authorities in Rome in 1616. Kepler's writings illustrate how certain supporters of Copernicus viewed the universe of stars and relied on divine power to undergird that view. Decades after Kepler, the discovery that the star size problem rested on a formerly unrecognized optical effect both freed the Copernican hypothesis from Brahe's charge of absurdity and negated Kepler's argument against Bruno.
Tycho Brahe's Critique of Copernicus and the Copernican System
by Ann Blair
Francis Bacon and the Progress of Knowledge
By Brian Vickers
Late Medieval Thought, Copernicus, and the Scientific Revolution
by Edward Grant

The Genesis of Science: how the Christian Middle Ages launched the scientific revolution by James Hannam
ISBN: 9781596981553
Available for checkout at the JSCC Jackson Library
Call num. Q124.97 .H358 2011
Galileo Goes to Jail : and other myths about science and religion by Ronald L. Numbers
ISBN: 9780674033276
Available for checkout at the JSCC Jackson Library
Call num. Q126.8 .G35 2009