Scientific revolution

:This article is about the period in history, not the process of scientific progress via revolution, proposed by Thomas Kuhn and discussed at paradigm shift

References

• Howard Margolis: It Started with Copernicus. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002  ISBN 0-07-138507-X

Science

• Barry Gower: Scientific Method. London: Routledge, 1997   ISBN 0-415-12281-3
• This book is concerned with the sequence of changes from which the modern understanding of science has developed and thus gives a useful grounding in the philosophical and historical basis of the scientific revolution

History

• I. Bernard Cohen: Revolution in Science. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985   ISBN 0-674-76777-2
• Bertrand Russell: The Scientific Outlook. London: Allen & Unwin, 1931
• A highly influential work. The first chapter 'Examples of the scientific method' paints a history of the key developments in the scientific revolution, from the perspective of a devotee of 'scientific thinking'.

Literary criticism

• Richard S. Westfall: Never at Rest: A biography of Isaac Newton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980   ISBN 0-521-23143-4
• A biography of Newton which begins the process of identifying the interplay between the 'theopolitical' issues and science which formed the basis of the 'actions and equal and opposite reactions' between the ideologies at the heart of both the mythologies and the realities of the scientific revolution.
• Robert Markley: Fallen Languages: Crises of representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993   ISBN 0-8014-2586-3
• This book puts the language of Boyle and the Royal Society under the 'literary theory' microscope. The author claims to find new insights in terms of the transition from Aristotelianism and examining the impact of 'hidden' theological constraints and influences on the key proponents of the scientific revolution.
• Lawrence M. Principe: The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his alchemical quest .... Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998   ISBN 0-691-01678-X
• Did Boyle really advocate a move away from alchemy to chemistry? Was this the first key move from mysticism to science? Implies that the scientific 'revolution' never occurred, and was a fabrication of biographers.
• Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer: Leviathan and the Air Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985   ISBN 0-691-08393-2
• Thomas Hobbes argued in the 1660's that the 'public science' model did not reveal the truth; this book examines the 'first criticisms of the scientific revolution' which may be interesting because they come from come from a 'fellow anti-aristotelian' such as Hobbes.

Anthropology

• Bruno Latour: We Have Never Been Modern; translated by Catherine Porter. New York; London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993   ISBN 0-7450-0682-5   ISBN 0-7450-1321-X (pbk)
• This takes the revolutionary stance presented in Leviathan and the air pump (above) and both develops and challenges it