The Scientific Revolution
- ISBN-10
- 022639848X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226398488
- Series
- The Scientific Revolution
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-11-05
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Steven Shapin
Description
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now updated with a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship. “An excellent book.”—Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review “Timely and highly readable. . . . A book which every scientist curious about our predecessors should read.”—Trevor Pinch, New Scientist “Shapin's account is informed, nuanced, and articulated with clarity. . . . This is not to attack or devalue science but to reveal its richness as the human endeavor that it most surely is. . . . Shapin's book is an impressive achievement.”—David C. Lindberg, Science “It's hard to believe that there could be a more accessible, informed or concise account. . . . The Scientific Revolution should be a set text in all the disciplines. And in all the indisciplines, too.”—Adam Phillips, London Review of Books
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- 1994-10-03
- 662 pages
- Paperback
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- 160 pages
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