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Scientific Revolution (96 Edition)
by Steven Shapin
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"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it." With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview. "Shapin's... (read more)

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by Galileo Galilei
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors
by John Gribbin
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