This book casts new light on the process that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led to a profound transformation in the study of nature with the emerge

This book documents the process of transformation from natural philosophy, which was considered the most important of the sciences until the early modern era, i

The early modern era produced the Scientific Revolution, which originated our present understanding of the natural world. Concurrently, philosophers established

This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages