Many of the discoveries which initiated the Scientific Revolution were greeted with great opposition because of their challenge to traditional and religious conceptions of the universe ...

Since this discovery, after which most scientists would have retired in self-satisfaction, Watson continues to lead a profound revolution ... to use the extraordinary scientific leadership ...

Cambridge historian Herbert Butter-field last night called the seventeenth century scientific revolution "the turning point in world history." Speaking before an overflow crowd of 600, Butterfield ...

Their reputation was well deserved, for the study and practice of medicine was then led by Muslim societies across their immense territory, which extended from modern-day southern Spain to Iran.