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Analyzes the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Hobbes, Gilbert, Boyle, and Newton to establish the reasons for the triumph of the modern scientific perspective. A criticism as well as a history of the change that made possible the rise of science, this volume is also a guide to understanding the methods and accomplishments of the great philosopher-scientists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Edwin Arthur Burtt (1892 – 1989) was an American philosopher who wrote extensively on the philosophy of religion. He was the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University.
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