A feast of details
“Wootton wonderfully describes how our recipes for reliable scientific knowledge were painstakingly built”
Read Jag Bhalla’s recipe for science & how facts became facts.
Marvellous historical detail
“Laden with nuggets of extraordinary erudition”
Tim Lewens reviews The Invention of Science for The Spectator.
Knowledge can be a subjective, fluid entity
“One of the greatest events in the invention of science was the very formulation of a vocabulary”
Ashutosh Jogalekar considers knowledge and The Invention of Science.
Engaging and readable
“Wootton demonstrates remarkable erudition”
Benjamin Breen reviews The Invention of Science for The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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“Reading Wootton’s book helped me understand the broader insight”
Sam McNerney gives his view on The Invention of Science.
Intellectual fireworks galore
“Wootton is a dazzling explicator of difficult ideas whose relish for his material is evident”
Matthew Price reviews The Invention of Science for The Boston Globe.
Best Books of 2015
A masterly account of the “scientific revolution”
Financial Times lists The Invention of Science as one of the best science books of the year.
Clear, fascinating, ambitious
“Wootton tells his tales well and portrays characters vividly. He writes with wit, and his book is full of surprises.”
Robert P. Crease reviews The Invention of Science for The Wall Street Journal.
Vibrant and impressive
“The Invention of Science is a marvel of expositional clarity”
Steve Donoghue reviews The Invention of Science for The Christian Science Monitor.
Tremendously good
“not only a history of science but a revisionist historiography of science”
Steven Poole reviews The Invention of Science for The New Statesman.