This work contains Steven Shapin's historical exploration into the origins of the modern scientific worldview. What historians have traditionally called the Scientific Revolution was, in Shapin's view, a diversity of practices and ideas that developed over the course of nearly two centuries. Rejecting the idea that there is anything like an "essence" of early modern science, the author shows that the Scientific Revolution in reality lacked the jarring abruptness and cataclysmic nature implied by its "revolutionary" name.
- ISBN10 0226750213
- ISBN13 9780226750217
- Publish Date 14 March 1998 (first published 15 November 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 232
- Language English