The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the centre, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric model, with the sun at the centre. His remarkable work, "On the Revolutions of Heavenl...(展开全部)

The Ptolemaic system of the universe, with the earth at the centre, had held sway since antiquity as authoritative in philosophy, science, and church teaching. Following his observations of the heavenly bodies, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) abandoned the geocentric system for a heliocentric model, with the sun at the centre. His remarkable work, "On the Revolutions of Heavenl...(展开全部)

罗杰斯·普莱斯是东英吉利大学(University of East Anglia)的一名历史课讲师，毕业于斯旺西--威尔士大学的现代历史和政治专业。他发表了很多作品，包括1972年的《法兰西第二共和国：社会历史(The French Second Republic: A Social History)》，1981年的《现代法国经济史，1730~1914 (An Economic History of Modern France, 1730-1914)》，1983年的《法国农村的现代化(The Modernisation of Rural France)》, 以及1987年的《19世纪法国社会史(A Social History of Nineteenth Century France)》。

罗杰斯·普莱斯是东英吉利大学(University of East Anglia)的一名历史课讲师，毕业于斯旺西--威尔士大学的现代历史和政治专业。他发表了很多作品，包括1972年的《法兰西第二共和国：社会历史(The French Second Republic: A Social History)》，1981年的《现代法国经济史，1730~1914 (An Economic History of Modern France, 1730-1914)》，1983年的《法国农村的现代化(The Modernisation of Rural France)》, 以及1987年的《19世纪法国社会史(A Social History of Nineteenth Century France)》。

Since the publication of this book in 1962, Kuhn's writings (and many of his ideas, such as "paradigm shift") have been highly influential in academic and popular discourse. This book is must-reading for anyone studying the history and philosophy of science specifically, or cultural or technological change generally. Since Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scienti...(展开全部)

Since the publication of this book in 1962, Kuhn's writings (and many of his ideas, such as "paradigm shift") have been highly influential in academic and popular discourse. This book is must-reading for anyone studying the history and philosophy of science specifically, or cultural or technological change generally. Since Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scienti...(展开全部)

This title challenges the belief that the 18th century was essentially modern in its temper. Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far from that; that Voltaire, Hume, Diderot, and Locke were living in a medieval world, and that these philosophers "demolished the Heavenly City of St. Augustine only to rebuild it with ...(展开全部)

Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements. New institutional configurations emerged; constitutional texts were codifie...(展开全部)