The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth

摘要

William Poole is a Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford. It shows ! But in his acknowledgement he tells us that in the six years previous to his book being published he was awakened from the " lazy parochialism of the literary department" by people I recognize as belonging to the field of history and philosophy of science and history of ideas, such as Ludmilla Jordanova, Mor-dechai Feingold and Scott Mandelbrote.