{"product_id":"book-buwv","title":"The Invention of Science","description":"\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the  Scientific Revolution, and how it came to change the way we understand  ourselves and our world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in a world transformed by scientific discovery. Yet  today, science and its practitioners have come under political attack.  In this fascinating history spanning continents and centuries, historian  David Wootton offers a lively defense of science, revealing why the  Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event in our history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Science \u003c\/i\u003egoes  back five hundred years in time to chronicle this crucial  transformation, exploring the factors that led to its birth and the  people who made it happen. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution  was actually five separate yet concurrent events that developed  independently, but came to intersect and create a new world view. Here  are the brilliant iconoclasts-Galileo, Copernicus, Brahe, Newton, and  many more curious minds from across Europe-whose studies of the natural  world challenged centuries of religious orthodoxy and ingrained  superstition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom gunpowder technology, the discovery of the new  world, movable type printing, perspective painting, and the telescope  to the practice of conducting experiments, the laws of nature, and the  concept of the fact, Wootton shows how these discoveries codified into a  social construct and a system of knowledge ideas of truth, knowledge,  progress. Ultimately, he makes clear the link between scientific  discovery and the rise of industrialization-and the birth of the modern  world we know.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49301212856624,"sku":"BDbuwv","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49301212889392,"sku":"ZEbuwv","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49301212922160,"sku":"ZMbuwv","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/buwv-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775804057","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-buwv","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}