Called 'the most noted person of his age' by Anthony Wood, Henry Stubbe (1632 76), classicist, polemicist, physician, philosopher and the most important critic of the early Royal Society, has never had a biography. This study seeks to fill that gap, while standing received opinion about him on its head. The older view has it that at the Restoration Stubbe renounced his radical past and became the enemy of scientific progress and a reactionary defender of church and monarchy. Professor Jacob shows instead that Stubbe continued to espouse radical views after 1660 by devious means. Publicly he...
Called 'the most noted person of his age' by Anthony Wood, Henry Stubbe (1632 76), classicist, polemicist, physician, philosopher and the most importa...
An introduction to a large and complicated subject, which has come to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the fundamental changes in our understanding of the natural world that occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These changes led to a rejection of ancient and medieval thinking about the universe in favor of the new thinking that gave birth to modern science. Professor Jacob does not pretend to tell the whole story of this momentous transformation, which is perhaps more important than any other in modern history. But he does highlight and survey what...
An introduction to a large and complicated subject, which has come to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the fundamental changes...
