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Index
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Modern Minds
2. The Idea of the Scientific Revolution
Part One: The Heavens and the Earth
3. Inventing Discovery
4. Planet Earth
Part Two: Seeing is Believing
5. The Mathematization of the World
6. Gulliver’s Worlds
Part Three: Making Knowledge
7. Facts
8. Experiments
9. Laws
10. Hypotheses/Theories
11. Evidence and Judgement
Part Four: Birth of the Modern
12. Machines
13. The Disenchantment of the World
14. Knowledge is Power
Conclusion: The Invention of Science
15. In Defiance of Nature
16. These Postmodern Days
17. ‘What Do I Know?’
Some Longer Notes
A Note on Greek and Medieval ‘Science’
A Note on Religion
Wittgenstein: No Relativist
Notes on Relativism and Relativists
A Note on Dates and Quotations
A Note on the Internet
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index
Plate Section
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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