The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution

Wootton, David

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution - London Penguin Books 2015 - 769p

1. Modern Minds
2. The Idea of the Scientific Revolution

Part I: The Heavens and the Earth
3. Inventing Discovery
4. Planet Earth no

Part II: Seeing is Believing
5. The Mathematization of the World
6. Gulliver's Worlds

Part III: Making Knowledge
7. Facts
8. Experiments
9. Laws
10. Hypotheses/Theories
11. Evidence and Judgement

Part IV: Birth of the Modern
12. Machines
13. The Disenchantment of the World
14. Knowledge is Power

Conclusion the Invention of Science
15. In Defiance of Nature
16. These Postmodern Days
17. What Do I Know?

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Science - Philosophy - History

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