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