How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...
For 40 years and more, Dennis Flanagan has been struggling to popularize the scientific revolution that we are in. Now that is a long time. It’s about enough time, for example, for a northeastern ...
Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...
The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S.
Problem of cause -- The scientific revival of the sixteenth century -- A century of confusion -- The new science of motion -- The revolution in astronomy -- Innovation in biology -- New systems of ...
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The revolution is already here: The science that not only extends our lives – but makes us younger
In recent decades medical science has undergone a revolution. If once medicine dealt mainly with curing diseases after they appeared, today a new approach is becoming established: Preventive, ...
Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a “longhair” who had coined the word “cybernetics”* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now ...
Scientists and publishers generally agree that the Internet is sparking a science publishing revolution.1 They have yet to agree, however, on how to cultivate that revolution without alienating one ...
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