The invention of science
Subtitle: a new history of the scientific revolution
By: David Wootton
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 769
ISBN-13: 9780061759529
Subjects: Science; History
Description: "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,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [573]-722) and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern minds ; The idea of the scientific revolution; title: The heavens and the earth: Inventing discovery ; Planet Earth; title: Seeing is believing: The mathematization of the world ; Gulliver's worlds; title: Making knowledge: Facts ; Experiments ; Laws ; Hypotheses/Theories ; Evidence and judgement; title: Birth of the modern: Machines ; The disenchantment of the world ; Knowledge is power; title: In defiance of nature ; These postmodern days ; 'What do I know?'.