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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
Ingenious Pursuits Building the Scientific Revolution Author:Lisa Jardine Historian Lisa Jardine looks at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Ne... more »wton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering. Ingenious Pursuits chronicles the intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves, and of the world around us.« less