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One of the things that I think would be essential for an effort like this is a reference that describes the pivotal experiments and resulting insights that led
by aethertap 12y ago
One of the things that I think would be essential for an effort like this is a reference that describes the pivotal experiments and resulting insights that led us to our current level of scientific knowledge. To me, those accumulated inductive leaps of genius or luck are the real inheritance of our civilization.
Does anyone know if this book dives into that, or if not is there any other prepackaged "this is how science got here" kind of resource out there?
- aperrien 12y agoYou might want to check out James Burke's "Connections" series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)
- Blahah 12y agoThe best I know of in one coherent resource is the History of Science series of lectures by Lawrence Principe at Johns Hopkins, published by The Teaching Company: http://www.thegreatcourses.co.uk/tgc/Courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=1200 http://www.thegreatcourses.co.uk/tgc/Courses/course_detail.a...
- mkempe 12y agoOr one could capture methods of thinking that define and support science, so that one could fuel the Nth Renaissance, like Aristotle's works fueled the (Original) Renaissance.
- Lost_BiomedE 12y agoConnections is good. The book 'The Engines of our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture' is similar.