How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...
Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield : a preliminary sketch / David C. Lindberg -- Conceptions of science in the Scientific Revolution / Ernan McMullin -- Metaphysics and ...
Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room ...
Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...