David Wootton is the Anniversary Professor at the University of York. His previous books include Paolo Sarpi, Bad Medicine, and Galileo. He gave the Raleigh Lectures at the British Academy in 2008, the Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford in 2014, and the Benedict Lecture at Boston University in 2014.
A companion to such acclaimed works as The Age of Wonder, A Clockwork Universe, and Darwin’s Ghosts—a groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand ourselves and our world.
We live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack. In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history.
The Invention of Science goes back five hundred years in time to chronicle this crucial transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed independently, but came to intersect and create a new worldview. Here are the brilliant iconoclasts—Galileo, Copernicus, Brahe, Newton, and many more curious minds from across Europe—whose studies of the natural world challenged centuries of religious orthodoxy and ingrained superstition.
From gunpowder technology, the discovery of the new world, movable type printing, perspective painting, and the telescope to the practice of conducting experiments, the laws of nature, and the concept of the fact, Wotton shows how these discoveries codified into a social construct and a system of knowledge. Ultimately, he makes clear the link between scientific discovery and the rise of industrialization—and the birth of the modern world we know.
發表於2024-11-13
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在《從黎明到衰落》一書中,雅剋·巴爾贊用四個革命定義瞭西方近500年的社會和文化發展:宗教革命、君主製革命、自由革命、社會革命,巴爾贊是從整個社會曆史的層麵進行總結的,在拜讀《從黎明到衰落》的過程中,人們不難發現有另一條暗綫貫穿這段曆史,那就是科學的發展。 而...
評分本書文風明顯齣自科班教授,典型的超級文獻迴顧。猜測應該是不同主題的研究論文,拼齣瞭本書的內容。在我這樣的業餘票友看來,其中涉及的文獻浩如煙海,有時關於一個詞的發源就夠研究很久。 以科學和民生改進為標準,17-19世紀的曆史對人類至關重要,發源、爆發於西歐,最終從2...
評分花瞭一個多月,在上下班的路上斷斷續續地讀完瞭這本書。關於科學革命和科學史的書相當多,我也讀過不少瞭,哥白尼、開普勒、伽利略、波義耳到牛頓一係列名字和他們的故事早就耳熟能詳。 我之所以讀David Wotton 的這本《科學的發明》,是覺得這本關於科學革命和科學誕生的書有...
評分花瞭一個多月,在上下班的路上斷斷續續地讀完瞭這本書。關於科學革命和科學史的書相當多,我也讀過不少瞭,哥白尼、開普勒、伽利略、波義耳到牛頓一係列名字和他們的故事早就耳熟能詳。 我之所以讀David Wotton 的這本《科學的發明》,是覺得這本關於科學革命和科學誕生的書有...
評分在《從黎明到衰落》一書中,雅剋·巴爾贊用四個革命定義瞭西方近500年的社會和文化發展:宗教革命、君主製革命、自由革命、社會革命,巴爾贊是從整個社會曆史的層麵進行總結的,在拜讀《從黎明到衰落》的過程中,人們不難發現有另一條暗綫貫穿這段曆史,那就是科學的發展。 而...
圖書標籤: 科學史 英國 科學 科學人文 科學 湖南科技? 歷史 歐洲
In this thick and informative volume, the author examines the birth of vocabulary of modern science since the Columbian discovery in order to illustrate the discontinuity of pre-modern and modern sciences and to emphasise that there was indeed the Scientific Revolution. A cultural history of language instead of a history of scientific elites...
評分“發現”一詞在十六世紀早期歐洲的興起和傳播。
評分In this thick and informative volume, the author examines the birth of vocabulary of modern science since the Columbian discovery in order to illustrate the discontinuity of pre-modern and modern sciences and to emphasise that there was indeed the Scientific Revolution. A cultural history of language instead of a history of scientific elites...
評分In this thick and informative volume, the author examines the birth of vocabulary of modern science since the Columbian discovery in order to illustrate the discontinuity of pre-modern and modern sciences and to emphasise that there was indeed the Scientific Revolution. A cultural history of language instead of a history of scientific elites...
評分In this thick and informative volume, the author examines the birth of vocabulary of modern science since the Columbian discovery in order to illustrate the discontinuity of pre-modern and modern sciences and to emphasise that there was indeed the Scientific Revolution. A cultural history of language instead of a history of scientific elites...
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