Nor do I understand his conclusion that Europe became the font of modern science because it was Christian. Why did the modern scientific revolution start in Europe? It is a complicated question ...

Think again Tycho Brahe, whose statue overlooks the Østervold Observatory in Denmark, was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution in 16th-century Europe. A new book explores the cultural and ...

The scientific revolution is the reason we have high life ... billions of dollars for science within a few centuries, European societies have come a long way. The course of history should be ...

In popular history, the scientific revolution is often viewed to be due ... for anyone interested in the early history of science in Europe, specifically the 11th and 12th centuries.

That transformation set Europe on a unique developmental trajectory ... proved indispensable to the later pioneers of the Scientific Revolution like Galileo, Kepler and Newton.

How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the ...

The Scientific Revolution was conducted by scientists ... Nobody knows for sure why modern science uniquely arose in medieval Christian Europe. But many point to the primacy of reason in Christian ...

My children and I were going over the Scientific Revolution that happened during the Renaissance in Europe: science as defined by observation and experimentation instead of the Greek-inspired ...

One of the most important such regions is the Europe of the 16th and 17th centuries, a time and place that is sometimes known as the ‘Scientific Revolution’. This label, like that of the ...