The Scientific Revolution

by Mitchell Young

From the publication of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus (1543), to the death of Isaac Newton (1627), there was an fundamental change in human thinking about nature. The essays in The Scientific... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0737729872
• ISBN13: 9780737729870
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Greenhaven Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

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