PDF Free Download | The Invention of Science A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
Contents of The Invention of Science
- Modern Minds
- The Idea of the Scientific Revolution
- PART ONE
- The Heavens and the Earth
- Inventing Discovery
- Planet Earth
- PART TWO
- Seeing is Believing
- The Mathematization of the World
- Gulliver’s Worlds
- PART THREE
- Making Knowledge
- Facts
- Experiments
- Laws
- Hypotheses/Theories
- Evidence and Judgement
- Birth of the Modern
- Machines
- The Disenchantment of the World
- Knowledge is Power
- CONCLUSION
- The Invention of Science
- In Defiance of Nature
- These Postmodern Days
- ‘What Do I Know?’
- Some Longer Notes
- A Note on Greek and Medieval ‘Science’
- A Note on Religion
- Wittgenstein: No Relativist
- Notes on Relativism and Relativists
- A Note on Dates and Quotations
- A Note on the Internet
