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A groundbreaking examination of the greatest event in history, the Scientific Revolution, and how it came to improve the way we understand ourselves and our world. We are in a world transformed by scientific breakthrough. Yet today technology and its professionals have come under political strike. In this attractive record spanning continents and centuries, historian David Wootton offers a lively defense of technology, disclosing why the Scientific Revolution was truly the greatest event inside our history. The Technology of Knowledge goes back 500 years with time to chronicle this critical transformation, discovering the factors that resulted in its beginning and the people who achieved it. Wootton argues that the Scientific Revolution was actually five different yet concurrent incidents that developed independently but came to intersect and create a new worldview. Listed below are the outstanding iconoclasts - Galileo, Copernicus, Brahe, Newton, and so many more curious minds from across European countries - whose studies of the natural world challenged centuries of religious orthodoxy and ingrained superstition. From gunpowder technology, the breakthrough of the new world, movable type printing, perspective painting, and the telescope to the practice of doing experiments, the regulations of aspect, and the idea of the fact, Wootton shows how these discoveries codified into a interpersonal construct and a system of knowledge ideas of truth, knowledge, progress. Inevitably he makes clear the hyperlink between scientific breakthrough and the rise of industrialization - and the beginning of the modern world we know.