{"id":1204370,"date":"2023-11-18T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204370"},"modified":"2023-11-18T08:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T13:20:01","slug":"globalism-vs-the-scientific-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204370","title":{"rendered":"Globalism vs. the scientific revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question<\/a>\u00a0in the form of a book called The Invention of Science<\/em>. In it, British historian David Wootton<\/a> places the origin within a few centuries of European history in which the features of modern science\u2014experiments, models and laws, peer review\u2014were gradually aggregated into a formal process of organized discovery.<\/p>\n

But that answer is exquisitely sensitive to how science is defined. A huge range of cultures engaged in organized observations of the natural world and tried to identify patterns in what they saw. In a recent book called Horizons<\/em><\/a>, James Poskett<\/a> places these efforts firmly within the realm of science and arrives at his subtitle: “The global origins of modern science.” He de-emphasizes the role of Europe and directly dismisses Wootton’s book via footnote in the process.<\/p>\n

Whether you find Poskett’s broad definition of science compelling will go a long way to explain how you feel about the first third of the book. The remaining two-thirds, however, are a welcome reminder that, wherever it may have started, science quickly grew into an international effort and matured in conversation with international cultural trends like colonialism, nationalism, and Cold War ideologies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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