Why is the scientific revolution still controversial? podcast
by Ian Sample from on (#N2K0)
David Wootton's new book challenges the notion that knowledge is culturally relative and truth is simply consensus
Why did the scientific revolution come about when it did? Why could previous generations not make the great strides made during the Enlightenment? And why is the scientific revolution still a cause for debate, even today?
Ian Sample talks to David Wootton, Anniversary professor of history at the University of York. His new book, The Invention of Science, seeks to tell the story of the revolution that gave birth to modern science, and challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of this history.
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