William Harvey and the use of purpose in the scientific revolution : cosmos by chance or universe by design? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mcmullen, Emerson Thomas
Format: Book
Published: Lanham ; New York : University Press of America, 1998.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Background to Harvey's Life and Times. Background to the Use of Purpose in Science. Harvey's Education and Use of Purpose. Harvey's Discovery. Worldview, Harvey, Bacon and Descartes. Harvey's Legacies. The New Universe. From Steno to Newton. Newton, Descartes, and Science after the Seventeenth Century. How Science Advances