The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
by David Wootton
Harper Collins, New York, New York, 2015 769 pages
Modern science was invented between 1572, when Tycho Brahe saw a nova, or new star, and 1704 when Newton published his Opticks, which demonstrated that white light is made up of light of all the colours of the rainbow. . . It was astronomy that was transformed in the years after 1572 into the first true science. What made astronomy in the years after 1572 a science? It had a research programme, a community of experts, and it was prepared to question every long-established certainty in the new light of evidence. Where astronomy led, other new sciences followed. (p.1)
-- quote submitted by Jack Y.
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