2,478
edits
Science Since Babylon: Difference between revisions
m
no edit summary
m (→Quotes) |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
''Science Since Babylon'' was written by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price 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. | ''Science Since Babylon'' was written by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price 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. | ||
An Open Access PDF of the book is available [http://derekdesollaprice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Science-Since-Babylon-opt.pdf here]. | '''An Open Access PDF of the book is available [http://derekdesollaprice.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Science-Since-Babylon-opt.pdf here].''' | ||
[[File:DerekdeSollaPrice.jpg|thumb|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek de Solla Price] with a model of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism Antikythera Mechanism]]] | [[File:DerekdeSollaPrice.jpg|thumb|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek de Solla Price] with a model of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism Antikythera Mechanism]]] | ||