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This chapter analyzes how the new conceptual, methodological, and ideological transformation of science the emerged during the Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provided an intellectual foundation for the development of engineering science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The chapter focuses on the role of Galileo, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton in creating a new conceptual framework for science by formulating a mechanical philosophy, a new methodology of science by formulating an experimental philosophy and establishing a new ideology of science that argued that scientific knowledge was practical, useful and a source of political power.
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Channell, D.F. (2019). The Intellectual Roots of Engineering Science. In: The Rise of Engineering Science. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95606-0_2
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