Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
- ISBN-10
- 022621169X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226211695
- Series
- Curiosity
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 465
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-09-17
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Philip Ball
Description
"Looking closely at the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Ball vividly brings to life the age when modern science began, a time that spans the lives of Galileo and Isaac Newton. In this entertaining and illuminating account of the rise of science as we know it, Ball tells of scientists both legendary and lesser known, from Copernicus and Kepler to Robert Boyle, as well as the inventions and technologies that were inspired by curiosity itself, such as the telescope and the microscope. The so-called Scientific Revolution is often told as a story of great geniuses illuminating the world with flashes of inspiration. But Curiosity reveals a more complex story, in which the liberation--and subsequent taming--of curiosity was linked to magic, religion, literature, travel, trade, and empire. Ball also asks what has become of curiosity today: how it functions in science, how it is spun and packaged for consumption, how well it is being sustained, and how the changing shape of science influences the kinds of questions it may continue to ask"--OCLC
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- 2013-04-03
- 474 pages
- Paperback
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- 2001
- 321 pages
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