One of my most valuable research tools was Floris Cohen's The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographic Inquiry (University of Chicago Press, 1994). This book formed the foundation of my research and was my primary resource used for analysis because it detailed a comprehensive investigation of all written material regarding the Scientific Revolution, from the initial stages to the most recent historical interpretations. Cohen elaborated on several key questions that were relevant topics throughout the entire Scientific Revolution to which early historians contributed. These terms associated with the Scientific Revolution were intended to fit different historians' descriptions to record how cultures or theories were interpreted over time. The Scientific Revolution as an event saw the transformation of magical traditions into more practical and rational methods of interpreting why certain theories or events emerged. Cohen described Hermeticism or Hermeticism as documents reconstructed during the 17th century by historians and scientists. The development of Hermeticism in connection with the scientific revolution expanded historical horizons because this event required that "... historians think according to the thoughts of the scientist after him, or continuous development." The early social events, theories, and developments of the Scientific Revolution shaped how this historical period would be explored, interpreted, and recorded during specific eras. The difference between medicine and poison is the dose: Early depictions of the scientific revolution by scientists and historians conveyed a common view that societies would benefit from medicine's discoveries due to medical discoveries potentially saving and eliminating. .... middle of paper ....../books?id=J9xwDBFeRrUC&printsec=frontco ver# v= onepage&q&f=false.Shapere, Dudley. "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". The Philosophical Journal 73, n. 3 (July 1964): 383-94. Accessed March 11, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2183664.Shelley, M., ed. Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration. Thousand Oaks: SAGE, 2006. Accessed May 11, 2014. http://encyclopine.org/en/Empiricism.Stone, Lawrence. "Prosopography". Dedalo 100, n. 1 (1971): 46-79. Accessed May 3, 2014.http://www.jstor.org/stable/20023990.Vernon, Richard. "Auguste Comte and 'development': a note." History and Theory 17, no. 3 (1978): 323-26. Accessed May 14, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2504743.Wertz, S. K. “Hume and the Historiography of Science.” Journal of the History of Ideas 54, n. 3 (1993): 411-36. Accessed May 16, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2710021.