Two stories in science are worth cheering right now: the amazing amount of knowledge humanity is gathering about COVID-19 and the quietly revolutionary ways we’re accelerating the pace of discovery.

Nancy Turner debunks commonly held misconceptions surrounding the Scientific Revolution. Nancy Turner, Professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Education at UW-Platteville, debunks five commonly ...

When Columbus discovered America, European culture hadn’t yet grasped the concept of discovery. Various languages had verbs that could be translated as discover, but only in the sense of discovering ...

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Think again Tycho Brahe, whose statue overlooks the Østervold Observatory in Denmark, was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution in 16th-century Europe. A new book explores the cultural and ...

In popular history, the scientific revolution is often viewed to be due to the work of singular pioneers: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton. But as scholars in the history of science have argued, ...

Grounded in research and cultivating inquiry, American medicine, at its best, is the envy of the world. Patients from around the globe—with the means to afford it—travel to centers of excellence like ...

The discovery of quantum mechanics in the early 20th century spawned a revolution that tore through scientific disciplines with abandon. It helped to explain, among many other things, the structure of ...

Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield : a preliminary sketch / David C. Lindberg -- Conceptions of science in the Scientific Revolution / Ernan McMullin -- Metaphysics and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Since 1960 a debate has taken place between demographers and natural scientists over projections of world population into the future and the ...

Is science reform stunted by lack of theory? Source: Photo by Mwabonje from Pexels The new sociology manuscript on the current scientific reform movement ends with a damning sentence: “Metascience has ...