The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution - David Wootton Audiobook
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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 500 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, Wootton shows how these discoveries codified into a social construct and a system of knowledge ideas of truth, knowledge, progress. Ultimately he makes clear the link between scientific discovery and the rise of industrialization - and the birth of the modern world we know.
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This post has 4 comments
September 23rd, 2016
You know that this guy has gotten it wrong as soon as he asserts that the birth of science occurred only 500 years ago. Before the Socratic era there were the Ionians in the area that is now part of Greece and Anatolian Turkey. They discovered and applied logic and reasoning and created the Scientific Method Democritus actually first posited atomic theory - that all matter was composed of tiny particles he called Atoma (atoms) and empty space. The leader of the Ionian “school” was Thales of Miletus (624-546 BCE), who was the first person on record to develop the concept of the Scientific Method and Empiricism. He was also the first thinker that we know of who applied deductive thinking to mathematics - in particular to Geometry, creating the theorum now often credited to Pythagoras (Thales had taught Anaximander, who in turn taught Pythagoras).
Unfortunately, the generations of Greeks who followed the Ionians discarded Empiricism in favor of “metaphysics” in which experimentation was dispensed with in favor of simple “thought experiments,” which they did not feel the need to verify empirically. Then came Christianity, and scientific and metaphysical though was put on hold for the next millenium and a half.
September 24th, 2016
thanks for this upload. been waiting to be able to grab the audiobook. I bought the hardcover book when it came out (earlier this year i believe), but just had not had the time to read it and its a monster. The only thing that could further make my day was if someone uploaded the new Ben Mezrich book 37th Parallel (really, any ufo books really, lots on audible, almost none for download anywhere). THanks again
October 22nd, 2016
Beartooth,
I have yet to listen to this and I am curious to learn your thoughts and opinion as you seem quite fit for the task.
The author asserts that “science” has existed for 500 years, which is contrary to your understanding — you hold that humanity has sought discovery via scientific methodologies for millennia.
What I find unclear is whether the author considers “science” only that perspective developed by Thomas Bacon that is commonly known as the scientific method. I am no scientist; sadly I am engaged in the practice of law, which as we all know, is filled with more narcissistic morons than any other profession. That sad fact revealed, I have successfully argued that science can only exist by virtue of strict adherence to the scientific method. Derivation from the method leads to unpredictable experimentation results, and experiment outcome predictability is the keystone of science.
Please submit your thoughts if you are so willing.
October 6th, 2020
Any chance of someone sharing this book with a re-up, many thanks in anticipation
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