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 ...

Seeking reliable knowledge of motion, matter, and causality, thinkers like Galileo, Descartes, and Newton proposed models of ...

In recent decades medical science has undergone a revolution. If once medicine dealt mainly with curing diseases after they appeared, today a new approach is becoming established: Preventive, ...

The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert ...

The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S.

Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...

Problem of cause -- The scientific revival of the sixteenth century -- A century of confusion -- The new science of motion -- The revolution in astronomy -- Innovation in biology -- New systems of ...

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