Difference between revisions of "Science Since Babylon"
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==Preface to Original Edition== | ==Preface to Original Edition== | ||
== 1. The Peculiarity of a Scientific Civilization | == 1. The Peculiarity of a Scientific Civilization == | ||
===Summary=== | ===Summary=== | ||
===References=== | ===References=== | ||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan] | ||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy Professor G. H. Hardy of Cambridge] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._H._Hardy Professor G. H. Hardy of Cambridge] | ||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_%28number%29 1729] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_%28number%29 1729] | ||
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Butterfield Herbert Butterfield] | *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Butterfield Herbert Butterfield] | ||
== 2. Celestial Clockwork in Greece and China == | == 2. Celestial Clockwork in Greece and China == | ||
Revision as of 04:57, 16 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.