The Scientific Revolution, 2nd Edition
$30.39
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2018
Summary
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now updated with a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship.
“An excellent book.”—Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review
“Timely and highly readable… . A book which every scientist curious about our predeces…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780226398341 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 022639834X |
| Author: | Steven Shapin |
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Imprint: | University of Chicago Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 149mm x 320mm |
| Series: | Science.Culture |
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Steven Shapin
Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. His books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump (with Simon Schaffer), A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, and The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation.
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