{"id":515,"date":"2015-12-13T11:08:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T11:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/?p=515"},"modified":"2016-01-24T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T16:26:54","slug":"best-books-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/?p=515","title":{"rendered":"Best Books of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ft.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-207 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ft.png\" alt=\"ft\" width=\"150\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/?p=205\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Wulf&#8217;s review<\/a>, Financial Times lists <em>The Invention of Science<\/em> as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/588f76de-940b-11e5-b190-291e94b77c8f.html\" target=\"_blank\"> one of the best science books of the year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;A masterly account of the \u201cscientific revolution\u201d that transformed western civilisation during the 16th and 17th centuries. Wootton\u2019s long book \u2014 more than 750 pages \u2014 is packed with people, stories, facts and argument on the emergence of experimentation to discover the laws of nature.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>A masterly account of the \u201cscientific revolution\u201d<\/i><\/b><br \/>\nFinancial Times lists <i>The Invention of Science<\/i> as one of the best science books of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acclaim","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inventionofscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}