The invention of science: a new history of the scientific revolution
(Book)
We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history. The Invention of Science goes back five hundred years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently, but came to intersect and create a new worldview. Here are the brilliant iconoclasts Galileo, Copernicus, Brahe, Newton, and many more curious minds from across Europe whose studies of the natural world challenged centuries of religious orthodoxy and ingrained superstition.
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Wootton, D. (2015). The invention of science: a new history of the scientific revolution. First U.S. edition. New York, Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Wootton, David, 1952-. 2015. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. New York, Harper.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Wootton, David, 1952-, The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. New York, Harper, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Wootton, David. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. First U.S. edition. New York, Harper, 2015.
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505 | 0 | |a Introduction. Modern minds ; The idea of the scientific revolution -- Part One. The heavens and the earth: Inventing discovery ; Planet Earth -- Part Two. Seeing is believing: The mathematization of the world ; Gulliver's worlds -- Part Three. Making knowledge: Facts ; Experiments ; Laws ; Hypotheses/Theories ; Evidence and judgement -- Part Four. Birth of the modern: Machines ; The disenchantment of the world ; Knowledge is power -- In defiance of nature ; These postmodern days ; 'What do I know?'. | |
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