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*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], described in [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4172819?seq=1 Magic and Mechanics in Medieval Fiction] by Merriam Sherwood
*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], described in [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4172819?seq=1 Magic and Mechanics in Medieval Fiction] by Merriam Sherwood
*Polish scholar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitello Witello]
*Polish scholar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitello Witello]
*Tower of the Winds, The Roman Agora in Athens: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2zgFdMVdU8 drone tour], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds wiki article]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_the_Winds Tower of the Winds], The Roman Agora in Athens: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2zgFdMVdU8 drone tour]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_astronomical_clock Strassbourg astronomical clock], made by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_and_Josias_Habrecht Isaac and Josias Habrecht]— [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKgZB3P45Kw watch it in action]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg_astronomical_clock Strassbourg astronomical clock], made by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_and_Josias_Habrecht Isaac and Josias Habrecht]— [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKgZB3P45Kw watch it in action]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Drebbel Cornelis Drebbel] and his [http://nautil.us/issue/12/feedback/the-vulgar-mechanic-and-his-magical-oven magical oven]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelis_Drebbel Cornelis Drebbel] and his [http://nautil.us/issue/12/feedback/the-vulgar-mechanic-and-his-magical-oven magical oven]

Revision as of 06:17, 25 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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