Course Book

Science in History Volume 2 – The Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, J.D. Bernal (MIT Press, 1971)   [Volume 2 of 4]

ISBN-10: ‎  0262520214;  ISBN-13:  ‎ 978-0262520218

"The second volume focuses on the period of development and establishment of modern science. It begins with work of the Renaissance and continues with a discussion of the stimulus given to scientific development by emerging seventeenth-century capitalism. A final section takes up the industrial revolution and the manner in which science and technology transformed the whole nature of human society."

[from amazon.com book description]

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1.  Buy the book:  list price $40, but is available used for much less.

2.  Download selections:  the book provides background reading for science in the times of Galileo, Newton and Maxwell.  The course webpages for each of those physicists has links to sections extracted from the book that are available as pdf's to view or download. 

3.  Download the book:  available as a pdf to view or download from the Internet Archive (click here), or on this site (360 pages, 26.8 MB), click here.