| 单词 | scientific revolution |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscientific revolution scientific revolution n. a rapid and far-reaching development in science; spec. (with the and sometimes with capital initials) the developments occurring in the early modern period in many branches of science and regarded as having a significant influence on European intellectual culture, considered as a discrete historical process. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > [noun] > sudden, marked, or notable advance > in science scientific revolution1803 1803 S. Miller Brief Retrospect of Eighteenth Cent. I. ii. 416 The frequency and rapidity of scientific revolutions may be accounted for in various ways. 1923 Jrnl. Philos. 20 597 The same logical methods and instruments which the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century brought to bear upon the knowledge of physical nature. 1946 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 51 267/1 The use of atomic energy appears to be a beginning of the ‘scientific revolution’. 1962 T. S. Kuhn (title) The structure of scientific revolutions. 2004 B. Bunch & A. Hellemans Hist. Sci. & Technol. 387/1 In the first Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, the problem of action at a distance was ‘solved’ by postulating various subtle media through which the action is transmitted. < as lemmas |
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