The invention of science a new history of the scientific revolution
"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 i...
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[London] :
Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books
2015
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| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007759259708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Table of 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?'.
