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*St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theological
*St Thomas Aquinas Summa Theological
*"beast-machine"
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*Jonathan Swift's Yahoos
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*Pascal's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator Pascaline] of 1645: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h71HAJWnVU how it works]
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*musical automata of Achilles Lagenbucher of Augsburg
*musical automata of Achilles Lagenbucher of Augsburg
*waterworks of Canterbury Cathedral
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*Duc Philippe, Count of Artois, castle of Hesdin
*Duc Philippe, Count of Artois, castle of Hesdin, and the [https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1850&context=mff Garden of Earthly Delights]
*Duke of Burgundy 1432
*Duke of Burgundy 1432
*Polish scholar Witello
*Polish scholar Witello

Revision as of 06:27, 24 May 2020

Science Since Babylon was written by Derek J. de Solla Price based on a series of five lectures he delivered at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library in October and November 1959 on the history of science. In 1961 it was published in London and New Haven by Yale University Press, and sold as a Yale Paperbound (paperback) in 1962. It is notable due to Price's observation of the exponential trajectory of scientific growth, and his subsequent prediction of that growth leveling off due to saturation. The book is often cited by Eric Weinstein for its observations about growth. Weinstein also notes that it is odd how few people know about this book.


Preface to Enlarged Edition

Preface to Original Edition

1. The Peculiarity of a Scientific Civilization

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2. Celestial Clockwork in Greece and China

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3. Automata and the Origins of Mechanism and Mechanistic Philosophy

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4. The __, __, and __, and Other Geometrical and Scientific Talismans and Symbolisms

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5. Renaissance Roots of Yankee Ingenuity

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6. The Difference Beteween Science and Technology

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7. Mutations of Science

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8. Diseases of Science

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9. Epilogue: Humanities of Science

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