Ingenious Pursuits: Creativity and the Scientific Revolution
- List Price: $35.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Doubleday Books
- Publish date: 01/01/2006
"Ingenious Pursuits" documents the series of virtuoso advancements -- among them the discovery of the circulation of blood, the perfection of the mechanical clock, enhanced astronomical observation, fundamental developments in mathematics, selective animal and plant breeding, and the development of chemical substance analysis -- that radically reshaped the early modern world. These fundamental breakthroughs did not spring from systematic investigation (i.e., "the scientific method") but from ingenuity, quick-wittedness, lateral thinking, and inspired guesswork.
"Ingenious Pursuits" is a broad-ranging but highly readable look at the very nature of creativity, the foundations of modern thought, and the intellectual revolutions that still shape lives.
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