Knowledge is Power (Icon Science)
How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science
Will be published approx. on 2. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-78578-236-7 (ISBN)
Description
Francis Bacon - a leading figure in the history of science - never made a major discovery, provided a lasting explanation of any physical phenomena or revealed any hidden laws of nature. How then can he rank as he does alongside Newton? Bacon was the first major thinker to describe how science should be done, and to explain why. Scientific knowledge should not be gathered for its own sake but for practical benefit to mankind. And Bacon promoted experimentation, coming to outline and define the rigorous procedures of the 'scientific method' that today from the very bedrock of modern scientific progress. John Henry gives a dramatic account of the background to Bacon's innovations and the sometimes unconventional sources for his ideas. Why was he was so concerned to revolutionize the attitude to scientific knowledge - and why do his ideas for reform still resonate today?
Reviews / Votes
Henry expounds his case with the contagious, even bullish, enthusiasm of the committed teacher, and the book is carefully pitched at an interested but not necessarily informed readership.' * Nature *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Duxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Illustrations, 10
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78578-236-7 (9781785782367)
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John Henry
Knowledge is Power (Icon Science)
How Magic, the Government and an Apocalyptic Vision Helped Francis Bacon to Create Modern Science
E-Book
11/2017
Icon Books
€6.98
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Person
John Henry is a Senior Lecturer in Science Studies at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Moving Heaven and Earth: Copernicus and the Solar System (2001), and has also illustrated a book on darts.