philosophycorner: When Science Went Modern By Lorraine Daston The history of science is punctuated b
philosophycorner: When Science Went Modern By Lorraine Daston The history of science is punctuated by not one, not two, but three modernities: the first, in the seventeenth century, known as “the Scientific Revolution”; the second, circa 1800, often referred to as “the second Scientific Revolution”; and the third, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, when relativity theory and quantum mechanics not only overturned the achievements of Galileo and Newton but also challenged our deepest intuitions about space, time, and causation. Continue Reading -- source link
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