The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution पुस्तक पीडीएफ डाउनलोड करें

डेविड रिचर्ड जॉन वूटन (जन्म 15 जनवरी 1952) एक ब्रिटिश इतिहासकार हैं। वह यॉर्क यूनिवर्सिटी में इतिहास के एनिवर्सरी प्रोफेसर हैं। ब्रिटिश अकादमी (2008) में रैले व्याख्यान दिया; ऑक्सफोर्ड विश्वविद्यालय में कार्लाइल व्याख्यान (2014); बोस्टन विश्वविद्यालय में बेनेडिक्ट व्याख्यान (2014)।

The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution पुस्तक पीडीएफ को पढ़ें और डाउनलोड करें डेविड वूटन

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.