From Galileo to Newton 1630-1720

Автор: A. Rupert Hall
Издательство: Harper & Row, Publishers
Страниц: 401
Год: 1963
Размер: 14,8 МБ

The endeavour to understand events in nature is as old as civilisation. In each of its three great seminal areas the Chinese, the Indian and the West Asian-European men tried to find a logic in the mysterious and an order in the chaotic. They made many attempts, sometimes revealing strange similarities in these totally different societies, to express general truths from which particular events would follow as rational, comprehensible consequences. They tried to describe and analyse in order to understand, for men could not live in the world without seeking to assign causes to the things that happen in it.