Nor do I understand his conclusion that Europe became the font of modern science because it was Christian. Why did the modern scientific revolution start in Europe? It is a complicated question ...

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 ...

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 ...

Above all, it misses where science is done. Against the standard narrative of a European scientific revolution, Poskett implores us to see science as a global enterprise, the result of the ...