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From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of 'natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a new method of thinking based on proof and experiment. John Gribbin's gripping, colourful account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society, culminating with Isaac Newton's revolutionary description of the universe and Edmund Halley's prediction of the return of a comet in 1759. This compelling book shows the triumph not as the work of one isolated genius, but of a Fellowship.
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John Gribbin is among the greatest writers of popular science and is author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, Stardust, and Science: A History. 'His gift lies not just in eloquent and lucid presentation of complicated ideas, but in writing about them as if they were adventures.' The Financial Times.
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William Gilbert of Colchester deserves pride of place in any account of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, because he was the first person to set out clearly in print the essence of the scientific method - the testing of hypotheses by rigorous experiments - and to put that method into action. Read the first page
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William Gilbert of Colchester deserves pride of place in any account of the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, because he was the first person to set out clearly in print the essence of the scientific method - the testing of hypotheses by rigorous experiments - and to put that method into action. Read the first page
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This was really an interesting book all about the roots of western science and all the people who started it all in the first place by founding the Royal Society in London. The group of scientists that are described are very real, some of them likeable and some of them less so! But the other thing I liked about this book was that it gave me a real feel for an age, a time of enlightenment not just in science but in EVERYTHING! If you're interested in the Enlightenment from any point of view, literary or scientific, I'd say that The Fellowship would be well worth adding to your list.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Royal Society makes a welcome new subject for history of science books, next to all those biographies. The origins of the first scientific clubhouse are scrupulously tracked by John Gribbin, who makes a fine job of portraiting John Wilkins, the driving force behind the constitution of the Society. As he was not a great scientist himself, he is easily forgotten even though his contribution to science, in the form of the Society, is tremendous.
So, this is interesting reading, the downside being the superfluous amounts of irrelevant extras. It's really not necessary, for instance, to deal extensively with Galileo in a book like this. It would have gained quality if it had been edited to roughly half its size.
So, this is interesting reading, the downside being the superfluous amounts of irrelevant extras. It's really not necessary, for instance, to deal extensively with Galileo in a book like this. It would have gained quality if it had been edited to roughly half its size.
7 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a facinating topic, but one this book fails to cover adequately. It's interesting when it quotes original sources, and sets out the story, but it fails to give a full context, and ends up as a thin series of life sketches, lacking the cultural or historical backdrop of a country emerging from war, fire and plague, where witches were still prosecuted. I was also unsure who this book is pitched at - it lacks the authority of a history book, but is more than a school text book.
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