An encyclopedic collection of key scientists and the tools and
concepts they developed that transformed our understanding of the
physical world. Many are familiar with the ideas of Copernicus,
Descartes, and Galileo. But here the reader is also introduced to
lesser known ideas and contributors to the Scientific Revolution,
such as the mathematical Bernoulli Family and Andreas Vesalius,
whose anatomical charts revolutionized the study of the human body.
More marginal characters include the magician Robert Fludd. The
encyclopedia also discusses subjects like Arabic science and the
bizarre history of blood transfusions, and institutions like the
Universities of Padua and Leiden, which were dominant forces in
academic medicine and science. Includes over 200 A-Z entries
covering topics ranging from Gregorian reform of the calendar to
Thomas Hobbes, navigation, thermometers, and the trial of Galileo
Provides a chronology of the scientific revolution from the
founding of the Casa de la Contratacion, a repository of
navigational and cartographic knowledge, in 1503, to the death of
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek in 1727
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