Benjamin Franklin's Enlightenment world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity.
Revoluciones en la Ciencia Serie
Esta serie se adentra en los tumultuosos períodos de descubrimientos científicos que remodelaron nuestra comprensión del universo. Explora no solo las ideas revolucionarias en sí, sino también las luchas personales y las convulsiones sociales que las acompañaron. Sea testigo de cómo la verdad científica a menudo surgió de batallas contra el dogma establecido, alterando profundamente el curso de la civilización. Los lectores experimentarán los dramáticos cambios en el viaje intelectual de la humanidad.
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Revolutions of Science: Harvey's Heart
The Discovery of Blood Circulation
- 106 páginas
- 4 horas de lectura
In 1628, William Harvey announced to the world his discovery of the circulation of the blood. Over 100 years before the Industrial revolution, man began to be understood using mechanical metaphors and Harvey's discoveries were integral to this. But Harvery himself descended from the Aristotelian tradition of anatomy. How did this great revolution come about?
Moving Heaven and Earth
- 192 páginas
- 7 horas de lectura
Given that the earth very definitely seems to be stationary, and given that even in our own time, the mathematical and astronomical procidures used by navigatiors to calculate their positions assume that the earth is stationary, what could have driven Copernicus to insist that the earth must be in motion?
