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

By:

Wootton, David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Penguin Books 2015 LondonDescription: 769pISBN:

9780141040837

Subject(s):

Science - Philosophy - History

DDC classification:

509 WOO

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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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