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The Scientific Revolution
Series: Science.Culture
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In this classic of science history, Shapin takes into account the culture – the variety of beliefs, practices, and influences – that in the 1600s shaped the origins of the modern scientific worldview.
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“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 predecessors should read. — Trevor Pinch, New Scientist
Shapin's account is informed, nuanced, and articulated with clarity. . . . This is not to attack or devalue science but to reveal its richness as the human endeavor that it most surely is. . . . Shapin's book is an impressive achievement. — David C. Lindberg, Science
It's hard to believe that there could be a more accessible, informed or concise account. . . . The Scientific Revolution should be a set text in all the disciplines. And in all the indisciplines, too. — Adam Phillips, London Review of Books
Series: Science.Culture
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ISBN: 9780226398341
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 August 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Edition: 2nd edition
Illustration: Illustrations, unspecified
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 256
About the Author
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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