Knowledge Machine

Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it.

\'The best introduction to the scientific enterprise that I know.

A wonderful and important book\' David Wootton, author of The Invention of Science It is only in the last three centuries that the formidable knowledge-making machine we call modern science has transformed our way of life and our vision of the universe - two thousand years after the invention of law, philosophy, drama and mathematics.