Butterfield Herbert. The origins of modern science 1300-1800

The Macmillan Company, 1959. — 261 p.The Historical Importance of a Theory of Impetus.
The Conservatism of Copernicus.
The Study of the Heart down to William Harvey.
The Downfall of Aristotle and Ptolemy.
The Experimental Method in the Seventeenth Century.
Bacon and Descartes.
The Effect of the Scientific Revolution on the Non-Mechanical Sciences.
The History of the Modern Theory of Gravitation.
The Transition to the Philosophe Movement in the Reign of Louis XIV.
The Place of the Scientific Revolution in the History of Western Civilisation.
The Postponed Scientific Revolution in Chemistry.
Ideas of Progress and Ideas of Evolution.
Suggestions for Further Reading.