books.google.com - To the medieval thinker, man was the center of creation and all of nature existed purely for his benefit. The shift from the philosophy of the Middle Ages to the modern view of humanity’s less central place in the universe ranks as the greatest revolution in the history of Western thought, and this...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Metaphysical_Foundations_of_Modern_S.html?id=G9WBMa1Rz_kC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science