History of science

Modern science is a body of verifiable empirical knowledge, a global community of scholars, and a set of techniques for investigating the universe known as the scientific method. The history of science traces these phenomena and their precursors back in time, all the way into human prehistory.

References

• Thomas S. Kuhn (1996). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd ed.). University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226458075
• Howard Margolis (2002). It Started with Copernicus. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-138507-X
• Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China. Multiple volumes (1954–2004).
• Bertrand Russell (1945). A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Leonard C. Bruno (1989), The Landmarks of Science. ISBN 0-8160-2137-6
• John L. Heilbron, ed., The Oxford companion to the history of modern science (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).