CONTENTS 10 INTRODUCTION SCIENTIFIC THE BEGINNING 1400-1700 OF SCIENCE 34 At the centre of 600 BCE-1400 CE everything is the Sun Nicolaus Copernicus 20 Eclipses of the Sun can 40 The orbit of every planet be predicted Thales of Miletus is an ellipse Johannes Kepler 21 Now hear the fourfold roots of everything 42 A falling body Empedocles accelerates uniformly Galileo Galilei 22 Measuring the circumference of Earth 44 The globe of the Earth is a magnet William Gilbert 23 The human is related to the lower beings 45 Not by arguing, but by trying Francis Bacon 55 Layers of r 46 Touching the spring of of one anot the air Robert Boyle Nicolas Ster 50 Is light a particle 56 Microscop or a wave? of animalic Christiaan Huygens Antonie van 24 A floating object displaces 52 The first observation of 58 Measuring its own volume in liquid a transit of Venus Archimedes of light Jeremiah Horrocks Ole Romer 26 The Sun is like fire, the 53 Moon is like water a series develop in Zhang Heng of steps Jan 60 One speci from the s John Ray 28 Light travels in straight 54 All living things are lines into our eyes Alhazen composed of cells 62 Gravity af Robert Hooke in the Uni Isaac Newt