About the book: 2014 / Renowned historian of science from Indiana University Marie Boas Hall in her study provides a general overview of scientific thought from the mid-15th to the mid-17th centuries. This period is a special stage in the history of science, a time of dramatic and surprisingly consistent changes. The book will talk about the astronomical revolution of Copernicus, the anatomical works of Vesalius and his contemporaries, the development of chemical medicine and the activities of the physician and alchemist Paracelsus. The desire to understand what is happening in nature later resulted in Harvey's study of the human circulatory system, Kepler's various studies, the brilliant discoveries of Galileo and many other ideas of the Renaissance, which became the greatest scientific, technical and intellectual achievements and marked the beginning of a new era of scientific thought, which is reflected in academic reference apparatus of the publication.