Wootton, David. The invention of science : a new history of the scientific revolution

Folger bibliographic ID: 344530
Folger call number: Q125 .W667 2015b
Folger holdings ID: 495384

"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

Edition

First U.S. edition

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages [573]-722) and index

Contents

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?'

Extended title: The invention of science : a new history of the scientific revolution / David Wootton

Science

author: Wootton, David, 1952-