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The Scientific Revolution was the most important ‘event’ in Western ... whether it has indeed succeeded in supplanting other chronological markers, notably the Enlightenment, which still enjoy a ...

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the Italian astronomer who became a pivotal figure in the scientific revolution some four centuries ago. “I could touch the real pages,” said De Angelis, who is a professor at the University ...

But, for all their transformative influence, key agents in the scientific revolution such as Descartes ... which developed in the wake of the Enlightenment and sought to offer ‘scientific’, or least ...