Skepticality.com Interview
Listen to David discuss The Invention of Science with Derek Colanduno (from 31 May 2016).
Read moreThe pages flew by…
“There’s so much..in The Invention of Science, so grab a copy and give it a read”
Frederick Leonhardt’s view on The Invention of Science.
How science got going, and how strange the world was before it
“I’ve learned a great deal of interesting stuff”
Drug discovery chemist and blogger Derek Lowe reviews The Invention of Science for In the Pipeline.
Reinvigorating and high-energy
“Wootton’s newest work is jam-packed with information”
Jeanette S. Ferrara reviews The Invention of Science in the Crystallography Times newsletter from Rigaku Oxford Diffraction.
Lucid and interesting
“Wootton has mastered a truly enormous corpus of scholarly work”
The Invention of Science is reviewed for the Rhapsody in Books Weblog.
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.
The Sun: From Copernicus to Newton
David was pleased to contribute to the St Cross Centre for the History and Philosophy of Physics (HAPP) one-day conference: A History of the Sun, Our Closest Star on 21 November 2015.
Read moreMarvellous 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.