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Vial and Error: Science’s wonders are oft built on blunders (2016)
- ogennadi 8y ago> At their core, both To Explain the World and The Invention of Science seek to reaffirm the significance of the scientific revolution as a force in world history. Summary: The author reviews two books on the history of science and finds that they conceive of history as a linear path of progress by geniuses, rather than as a tree of mostly dead-ends traversed by mere mortals.