num_pages: 288
description: This history of the birth of modern science shatters the illusion that science is 'dry' and divorced from culture by exploring the powerful clashes between traditions and value systems that gave rise to it. The author shows how many of the characteristics that distinguish science today emerged in the midst of the wars and plagues of the seventeenth century and defines what was new about this form of knowledge.
language: English
title: The Birth of Modern Science
titlecomplete: The Birth of Modern Science (Making of Europe)
genres: History, Philosophy, Science, History Of Science, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 149
awards: awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: J. A. Hollon palkinto
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell