Intellectual curiosity and the Scientific Revolution

by Toby E. Huff

Book Overview

Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521170524
• ISBN13: 9780521170529
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"