The Scientific Revolution

Steven Shapin

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Chicago University Press
05 November 2018

Mathematics & Sciences; History of science

Series: Science.Culture

“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now updated with a new bibliographic essay featuring the latest scholarship.

“An excellent book.”—Anthony Gottlieb, New York Times Book Review

“Timely and highly readable. . . . A book which every scientist curious about our predecessors should read.”—Trevor Pinch, New Scientist

“Shapin's account is informed, nuanced, and articulated with clarity. . . . This is not to attack or devalue science but to reveal its richness as the human endeavor that it most surely is. . . . Shapin's book is an impressive achievement.”—David C. Lindberg, Science

“It's hard to believe that there could be a more accessible, informed or concise account. . . . The Scientific Revolution should be a set text in all the disciplines. And in all the indisciplines, too.”—Adam Phillips, London Review of Books

By: Steven Shapin
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780226398341
ISBN 10: 022639834X
Series: Science.Culture
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 05 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Steven Shapin is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. His books include Leviathan and the Air-Pump (with Simon Schaffer), A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, and The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation.