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Hardcover The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution Book

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The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scentific Revolution

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John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the' scientific method, a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a half centuries that followed. In The Fellowship he describes the origins of the Royal Society, which grew out of meetings held in Oxford during the Civil War, and latterly in London, among natural philosophers', especially through the efforts of three men: William Gilbert, Francis Bacon, and William Harvey. The extraordinary return in 1759 of a comet that, on the basis of Newton's theory of gravity, had been predicted by Edmond Halley, marked the triumph of this scientific revolution. This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Giants And Pygmies

The beginnings of organized science by these mainly British pathfinders has certainly led to amazing things. Yet these men, drawn mainly from the leisure class, were very much like us today, which this very readable book describes with detail and a context that is not obvious to denizens of the twenty-first century. When knowledge as an instrument of human improvement was not encouraged, the achievements of these men is nothing...

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The development of scientific methods

It is an interesting study of the development of scientific method. The idea that you get data from the experimentation, then you derive a theory and then you test your theory. It shows how a group of English scientist in the seventeen century developed this new approach to scientific methods mainly centred around the development of Newtonian physics although it does discuss several other scientific disciplines. One question...

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So you wanna have a revolution?!

This was really an interesting book all about the roots of western science and all the people who started it all in the first place by founding the Royal Society in London. The group of scientists that are described are very real, some of them likeable and some of them less so! But the other thing I liked about this book was that it gave me a real feel for an age, a time of enlightenment not just in science but in EVERYTHING!...

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