The Knowledge Machine: How Irrationality Created Modern Science by Michael Strevens

Author:Michael Strevens [Strevens, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Liveright
Published: 2020-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

ARRIVING IN THE LATE SPRING of 1681, you might, with some agility and a certain disregard for the regulations, find your way into a private, walled garden to the right of the Great Gate at Trinity College. Suppose you do it.

In the garden you come upon a wooden structure built against a wall, and in that structure a well-provisioned laboratory. A notebook sits on the lab bench. Opening it at random, you read the following curious formulation:

Neptune with his trident leads the Philosopher into the sophic garden.

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