How Revolutionary — and How Scientific — Was the Scientific Revolution?
Room 100, Lovejoy Building, Colby College Mayflower Hill Drive, Waterville, MEProfessor of Philosophy Dan Cohen (Colby, Class of ’75) will discuss the Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, which marked a sea change in Western thought about the world and humanity’s place in it. At its start, we located ourselves at the center of a finite, harmonious, purpose-filled cosmos. By its end, the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic […]