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{{InfoboxBook |title=Science Since Babylon |image=[[File:Science Since Babylon Cover.jpg|150px]] |author=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_J._de_Solla_Price Derek J. de Solla Price] |language=English |genre=History of Science<br>Philosophy of Science |publisher=Yale University Press |publicationdate=1961<br>1975 (Enlarged Edition) |pages=240 |isbn13=978-0300017984 }} '''''Science Since Babylon''''' is a book 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 1975 enlarged edition expanded on the original material and also included new material, some of which were previously published essays or sections of previously published books. 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 given the implications of its predictions for science and research. '''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]]]
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