The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science - Michael Strevens

The Knowledge Machine: How an Unreasonable Idea Created Modern Science - Michael StrevensRich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it. 'The best introduction to the scientific enterprise that I know. A wonderful and important book' David Wootton, author of The Invention of Science It is only in the last three centuries that the formidable knowledge making machine we call modern science has transformed our way of life and our vision of the

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