science, renaissance

Explores how the development of new technologies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including theories about gravity and motion, the production of cheaper iron, and the invention of the steam engine, aided in the development of humankind. Includes teacher notes.

Describes how technological advances in China and the Arab world during the medieval period helped make up for the lack of scientific discovery that took place in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire and explores how the Renaissance became a great period of European learning and discovery. Includes teacher notes.

Introduces young readers to facts about the Italian Renaissance by highlighting the lives and works of five scientists and philosophers living during that time. Includes text-related questions and projects, quotes, timelines, a glossary, links to online resources, and color images.

Retraces the story of when Poggio Bracciolini found Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things," during the Renaissance and how the recirculation of this poem changed history.

Illustrations and text provide a comprehensive introduction to the Renaissance, focusing on advancements in science and technology, mathematics, astronomy, physics, medicine, exploration, biology, the occult, and other topics.

Chronicles the stormy collaboration between astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler at the turn of the seventeenth century, discussing how their discoveries would mark the transition from medieval to modern science and why Kepler is believed to have killed Brahe in order to take credit for Brahe's discoveries.

"The epic battle over a mathematical concept that shook the old order and shaped the world as we know it. On August 10, 1632, five leaders of the Society of Jesus convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine would become the foundation of calculus, but on that fateful day the judges ruled that it was forbidden"--Provided by publisher.

Retraces the story of when Poggio Bracciolini found Lucretius' poem "On the Nature of Things," during the Renaissance and how the recirculation of this poem changed history.

Describes advances in scientific knowledge that occurred during the Renaissance in Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.