David Wootton
Praise for The Invention of Science
The seventeenth century saw the emergence of the mindset that characterizes modern science. David Wootton lucidly describes the individuals, the experiments and the controversies that marked this intellectually turb ...
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society 2005-10
This is a superb book, at once cogent, revisionist and profound. It offers the most novel and significant account of the Scientific Revolution to appear for many years ... it is simply rather brilliant.
Michael Hunter, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
A truly remarkable piece of scholarship. His work has an ingenious and innovative linguistic foundation, examining the invention and redefinition of words as tracers of a new understanding of nature and how to appro ...
Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University
The seventeenth century saw the emergence of the mindset that characterizes modern science. David Wootton lucidly describes the individuals, the experiments and the controversies that marked this intellectually turb ...
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society 2005-10
This is a superb book, at once cogent, revisionist and profound. It offers the most novel and significant account of the Scientific Revolution to appear for many years ... it is simply rather brilliant.
Michael Hunter, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
A truly remarkable piece of scholarship. His work has an ingenious and innovative linguistic foundation, examining the invention and redefinition of words as tracers of a new understanding of nature and how to appro ...
Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University
The seventeenth century saw the emergence of the mindset that characterizes modern science. David Wootton lucidly describes the individuals, the experiments and the controversies that marked this intellectually turb ...
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society 2005-10
This is a superb book, at once cogent, revisionist and profound. It offers the most novel and significant account of the Scientific Revolution to appear for many years ... it is simply rather brilliant.
Michael Hunter, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London
A truly remarkable piece of scholarship. His work has an ingenious and innovative linguistic foundation, examining the invention and redefinition of words as tracers of a new understanding of nature and how to appro ...
Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University