Benjamin Franklin's Enlightenment world of philosophy, spectacle and electricity.
Révolutions en Science Séries
Cette série explore les périodes tumultueuses de découvertes scientifiques qui ont remodelé notre compréhension de l'univers. Elle examine non seulement les idées révolutionnaires elles-mêmes, mais aussi les luttes personnelles et les bouleversements sociétaux qui les ont accompagnées. Voyez comment la vérité scientifique a souvent émergé de batailles contre le dogme établi, modifiant profondément le cours de la civilisation. Les lecteurs vivront les changements dramatiques du parcours intellectuel de l'humanité.
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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
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- 7 heures de lecture
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?
