The Scientific Revolution
The timeline of the early modern period’s Scientific Revolution is marked by examples of thunderous innovation and technological advances. But these innovations didn’t spring up out of thin air. They themselves were the product of global interconnections and centuries of collective learning, all of which led to breakthroughs that contributed to the Age of Enlightenment in Western Europe.
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The Scientific Revolution
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The Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution does indeed include everything from Copernicus to Newton. But the story also extends beyond Europe and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Standing on the Shoulders of Invisible Giants
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Standing on the Shoulders of Invisible Giants
Saying “Invisible giants are responsible for scientific breakthroughs” doesn’t sound very scientific, but trust us: you’ll get it once you read this article.
The Maragha Observatory
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The Maragha Observatory
From Ptolemy to Copernicus to Galileo, thinkers have debated what the Universe looked like for centuries. How did we move from an Earth-centered view to one with the Sun at the center?
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Technology in the Age of Exploration
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Technology in the Age of Exploration
The age of oceanic exploration was made possible when technologies and ideas from across Afro-Eurasia came together in fifteenth-century Europe.
Thank You for Algebra: Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
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Thank You for Algebra: Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
This Muslim mathematician built on ancient ideas and offered new approaches to mathematics that we still rely on today.
Source Collection: Trade and Technology c. 1450 to 1750
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Source Collection: Trade and Technology c. 1450 to 1750
The primary sources in this collection explore how ideas, technologies, and how things move around the globe transformed how people navigated, ate, waged war, traded, and even how they looked up at the stars.