The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed The Truth and by James Burke
The Day the Universe Changed: How Galileo's Telescope Changed The Truth and Other Events in History That Dramatically Altered Our Understanding of the World (Back Bay Books) by James Burke
Back Bay Books; Rei Sub edition | September 1, 1995 | English | ISBN: 0316117048 | 352 pages | DJVU | 17 MB
Back Bay Books; Rei Sub edition | September 1, 1995 | English | ISBN: 0316117048 | 352 pages | DJVU | 17 MB
In The Day the Universe Changed, James Burke examines eight periods in history when our view of the world shifted dramatically: in the eleventh century, when extraordinary discoveries were made by Spanish crusaders; in fourteenth-century Florence, where perspective in painting emerged; in the fifteenth century, when the advent of the printing press shook the foundations of an oral society; in the sixteenth century, when gunnery developments triggered the birth of modern science; in the early eighteenth century, when hot English summers brought on the Industrial Revolution; in the battlefield surgery stations of the French revolutionary armies, where people first became statistics;