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 ...

Science is fragile. The scientific revolution was not inevitable. It emerged from the cauldron of religious wars that ravaged 17th-century Europe. The conditions that birthed the scientific ...

The Scientific Revolution was conducted by scientists ... Nobody knows for sure why modern science uniquely arose in medieval Christian Europe. But many point to the primacy of reason in Christian ...

Medieval Europe’s astronomy was defined by Greco ... in their observations – a typical forerunner of a Kuhnian scientific revolution. In the early 1500s, Nicolaus Copernicus staked out a ...

The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and scientists—especially from the United States.

But was there really a “Scientific Revolution” in the first place ... according to which nothing totally unprecedented happened in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. Wootton insists that this is wrong: ...

To economic historians like Joel Mokyr, there's nothing inevitable about the incredible wealth and health of the modern world. But for a spark in a little corner of Europe that ignited the ...

He learned of the scientific revolution that had been going on in Europe through the work of Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and René Descartes. Newton began to question ...

When Columbus discovered America, European culture hadn’t yet grasped ... Tycho’s exploding star did not cause the scientific revolution, Wootton avers, but it did announce the revolution ...

The Scientific Revolution was conducted by scientists ... following the fall of Rome (476), Europe entered the Dark Ages (476-1453), a Catholic-dominated era where little or nothing happened ...