La invención de la ciencia

La invención de la ciencia

una nueva historia de la Revolución Científica

Wootton, David

We live in a world made by science, but since when has it been like this? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and it posed a great challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its own history. Before 1492 it was assumed that all significant knowledge was already available; there was no concept of progress. This book argues that the discovery of America proved that new knowledge was possible, and paved the way for the invention that science was based on a new understanding of what knowledge could be. And with this came a new language: discovery, progress, facts, experiments, hypotheses, theories, and laws of nature. Almost all of these terms existed before 1492, but their meanings were radically transformed, thus becoming tools with which to think scientifically. All of us now speak this language of science, which was invented during the Scientific Revolution. The new culture had its martyrs (Giordano Bruno, Galileo), its heroes (Kepler, Boyle), its propagandists (Voltaire, Diderot), and its patient workers (Gilbert, Hooke). This book by David Wootton, now a landmark work, changes our understanding of how this great transformation came about, and what science is.

Author
Wootton, David
Subject
Sciences > Natural sciences
EAN
9788491992066
ISBN
978-84-9199-206-6
Edition
1
Publisher
Crítica
Pages
800 
High
22.4 cm
Weight
14.5 cm
Release date
03-03-2020
Language
Spanish 
Series
Serie Mayor 
Paperback edition
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Wootton, David (aut.)

  • Wootton, David
    David Wootton (Winchester, 1952) es profesor de Historia. Trabaja en historia cultural e intelectual en países anglosajones, en Italia y Francia. Ha ejercido de profesor de Historia y Ciencias    Read more