Such Matters as the Soul
Dmitri Levitin: ‘The Invention of Science’, 22 September 2016
The Invention of Science: a New History of the Scientific Revolution
by David Wootton.
Penguin, 784 pp., £12.99, September 2016,978 0 14 104083 7 Show More
by David Wootton.
Penguin, 784 pp., £12.99, September 2016,
“... for empirical, non-bookish knowledge, which culminated in the findings of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, all of whom worked outside the official world of learning (the institutions, meanwhile, remained tragically wedded to the old authorities). This Scientific Revolution slowly but surely ushered in an age of rationalism, sweeping away the superstition of ... ”