Full name: Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution

Author: Lisa Jardine Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385720014 0385720017

In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering.  Ingenious Pursuits brilliantly chronicles the true intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves, and of the world around us. Similar books: The Invention of Science by David Wootton The House of Wisdom by Jim Al-Khalili On a Grander Scale by Lisa Jardine The Fellowship by John Gribbin Science by John Gribbin The Scientific Revolution by Steven Shapin The Clockwork Universe by Edward Dolnick Revolutionizing the Sciences by Peter Dear The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke The Jasons by Ann Finkbeiner The Beginnings of Western Science by David C. Lindberg The Pinball Effect by James Burke Origin Story by David Christian To Explain the World by Steven Weinberg The Knowledge Web by James Burke Great Feuds in Science by Hal Hellman The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Rocket Men by Robert Kurson Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich