Ebook: The invention of science: a new history of the scientific revolution

The Scientific Revolution is one of the defining events in modern history - perhaps more than any other, the series of events and discoveries which have shaped the modern world. How did Europe, and then the rest of the world, separate empirical knowledge from supposition and superstition, and what extraordinary transformations did this bring about? This landmark book is a new account of the Scientific Revolution which will replace all other existing accounts, by the breadth of its thinking, the colour of its portraiture, and the originality of its vision.;Introduction -- 1. Modern minds -- 2. The idea of the scientific revolution -- Part One: The Heavens and the Earth -- 3. Inventing discovery -- 4. Planet Earth -- Part Two: Seeing is believing -- 5. The mathematization of the World -- 6. Gulliver's Worldes -- Part Three: Making knowledge -- 7. Facts -- 8. Experiments -- 9. Laws -- 10. Hypotheses/theories -- 11. Evidence and judgement -- Part Four: Birth of the Modern -- 12. Machines -- 13. The disenchantment of the World -- 14. Knowledge is power -- Conclusion: The invention of science -- 15. In defiance of nature -- 16. These Postmodern days -- 17. 'What do I know?'.