The Invention of Science (Hardcover)

from themulhern

This is a fairly scholarly work to find on the shelves of a contemporary public library. It discusses philosophies of the history of science and includes extensive footnotes and endnotes which must have been compiled by an army of graduate students. It is far livelier than this suggests, in part ...

from DLMorrese

Wootton claims there are two major philosophical camps among those who write about the history of science. He calls them the 'realists' and the 'relativists'. The realists regard science as essentially a formalized application of human common sense. To them, science is a systematic method of aski...

from nbmars

David Wootton is a professor of history at the University of York.  In The Invention of Science he proposes a new view of the definition, the significance, and the timing of the "Scientific Revolution."   Most historians would point to Copernicus as the initiator of the revolution with his public...

from stillatim

This is probably a very important book to read if you're a philosopher of science who thinks that the theories of phlogiston and evolution are of equal validity. Of course, those people do not exist. This is clearly a failure of editing, agenting, and a triumph of misleading marketing. This book ...

from Widsith

This is a book with a simple argument to make: that the scientific revolution was a real thing, it definitely happened, and it happened at a specific point in time, namely, 'between 1572, when Tycho Brahe saw a nova, and 1704, when Newton published his Opticks'. In that century and a half, a stag...