7 May 2012

Thinkers - History of Science

From Nights, 8:42 pm on 7 May 2012

Before our own times, there were three great revolutions in scientific thought: the Copernican Revolution (c. 1550-1650), the Chemical Revolution (c. 1750-1800), and the Darwinian Revolution (c 1850-1900); with philosopher Prof Alan Musgrave from the University of Otago... a bit of a jump from Aristotle in 300 BC to Copernicus in the 16th century.