In popular history, the scientific revolution is often viewed to be due to the work of singular pioneers: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton. But as scholars in the history of science have argued, ...

When Columbus discovered America, European culture hadn’t yet grasped the concept of discovery. Various languages had verbs that could be translated as discover, but only in the sense of discovering ...

Think again Tycho Brahe, whose statue overlooks the Østervold Observatory in Denmark, was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution in 16th-century Europe. A new book explores the cultural and ...

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It is a rare event for humanity to experience a change in worldview. You could say that the last time such an event truly took place was at the end of the Middle Ages — with the development of the ...

Original broadcast date: January 7, 2022. New innovations in gene and stem cell technology have the power to shape ecosystems and even change humanity. This hour, TED speakers share the breakthroughs ...

The scientific and religious revolutions that began 500 years ago were not causally related, but were both stimulated by printing, argues David Wootton. On 31 October 1517, as legend has it, renegade ...

Grounded in research and cultivating inquiry, American medicine, at its best, is the envy of the world. Patients from around the globe—with the means to afford it—travel to centers of excellence like ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Since 1960 a debate has taken place between demographers and natural scientists over projections of world population into the future and the ...

Is science reform stunted by lack of theory? Source: Photo by Mwabonje from Pexels The new sociology manuscript on the current scientific reform movement ends with a damning sentence: “Metascience has ...