The Invention of Science
  • Published: 14 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141040837
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 784
  • RRP: $42.99
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The Invention of Science

A New History of the Scientific Revolution

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17 Sep 2015
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14 Nov 2016
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The first major history of the Scientific Revolution in more than a generation, by one of the UK's leading intellectual historians

We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its history. David Wootton's landmark book changes our understanding of how this great transformation came about, and of what science is.
  • Published: 14 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141040837
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 784
  • RRP: $42.99
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About the author

David Wootton

David Wootton is Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York. His previous books include Paolo Sarpi (1983), Bad Medicine (2006) and Galileo (2010). He has given the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy (2008), the Carlyle Lectures at Oxford (2014) and the Benedict Lectures at Boston (2014). He is now working on a book about the politics of Shakespeare's Jacobean plays.

Praise for The Invention of Science

The seventeenth century saw the emergence of the mindset that characterizes modern science. David Wootton lucidly describes the individuals, the experiments and the controversies that marked this intellectually turbulent and transformative era. ... This fascinating and scholarly book should receive a wide readership.

Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, President of the Royal Society 2005-10

This is a superb book, at once cogent, revisionist and profound. It offers the most novel and significant account of the Scientific Revolution to appear for many years ... it is simply rather brilliant.

Michael Hunter, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London

A truly remarkable piece of scholarship. His work has an ingenious and innovative linguistic foundation, examining the invention and redefinition of words as tracers of a new understanding of nature and how to approach it. His erudition is awesome, and his argument is convincing.

Owen Gingerich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University

A grand, whooping narrative that is also exhaustively researched. It will, I am certain, become a landmark in the discipline of the history of science.

Andrea Wulf, Financial Times