Wightman, The Growth of Scientific Ideas (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953). See, for example, Michael Kerrigan, Ancient Rome and the Roman Empire (New York: DK Publications, 2001).įor these and other ancient contributions to science, see William P. Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987). Merton, On the Shoulders of Giants: A Shandian Postscript (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).Īllan D. de Solla Price, Science since Babylon (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961). (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996).ĭerek J. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd ed. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.įor a better understanding of scientific paradigms and scientific revolutions, see Thomas. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors.
The common person’s history of modern science and technology begins with the Industrial Revolution in Europe three hundred years ago and ends in the contemporary United States as the leading country. They are normally taken for granted while their origins and antecedents go unnoticed. These ideas and inventions that have transformed our world have come from diverse cultural and intellectual traditions and sources. Scientific discoveries and technological inventions have been the greatest sources of both violent and nonviolent social and cultural transformations throughout human history, from the invention of the sword, gunpowder, the compass, the clock, and alchemy to the theories of gravity, electromagnetism, relativity, and the development of lasers, integrated circuits, microchips, computers, nuclear bombs, and nanotechnologies.
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