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John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the' scientific method, a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a half centuries that followed. In The Fellowship he describes the origins of the Royal Society, which grew out of meetings held in Oxford during the Civil War, and latterly in London, among natural philosophers', especially through the efforts of three men: William Gilbert, Francis Bacon, and William Harvey. The extraordinary return in 1759 of a comet that, on the basis of Newton's theory of gravity, had been predicted by Edmond Halley, marked the triumph of this scientific revolution.
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John Gribbin is among the greatest writers of popular science and is author of In Search of Schrodinger'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
John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the' scientific method, a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a half centuries that followed. In The Fellowship he describes the origins of the Royal Society, which grew out of meetings held in Oxford during the Civil War, and latterly in London, among natural philosophers', especially through the efforts of three men: William Gilbert, Francis Bacon, and William Harvey. The extraordinary return in 1759 of a comet that, on the basis of Newton's theory of gravity, had been predicted by Edmond Halley, marked the triumph of this scientific revolution.
About the Author
John Gribbin is among the greatest writers of popular science and is author of In Search of Schrodinger'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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