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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780141040837 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
509.03 |
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WOO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Wootton, David |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Invention of science : a new history of the scientific revolution |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2016 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 769 p. ; |
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16 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. (chiefly colour), portraits, |
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20 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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699.00 |
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INR |
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| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history. Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available; there was no concept of progress; people looked for understanding to the past, not the future. This book argues that the discovery of America demonstrated that new knowledge was possible: indeed it introduced the very concept of 'discovery', and opened the way to the invention of science. The first crucial discovery was Tycho Brahe's nova of 1572: proof that there could be change in the heavens. The telescope (1610) rendered the old astronomy obsolete. Torricelli's experiment with the vacuum (1643) led directly to the triumph of the experimental method in the Royal Society of Boyle and Newton. By 1750 Newtonianism was being celebrated throughout Europe. The new science did not consist simply of new discoveries, or new methods. It led to a new rationalism, killing off alchemy, astrology, and belief in witchcraft. It led to the invention of the steam engine and to the first Industrial Revolution. |
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Science, Renaissance |
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Europe |
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Actor Network Theory (ANT) |
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Atomism; Astronomy |
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Boyle lectures |
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Copernican Revolution |
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Galileo |
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Descartes,Rene |
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Epicurean Philosophy |
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Eponymy |
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Industrial Revolution |
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Jansenism |
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Newton, Isaac |
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Pascal's barrel |
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Physico Theology |
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Sunspots |
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Torricellian space |
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Water-wheels |
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Whig History |
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Francis Bacon |
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Euclid |
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Books |