Origins of Modern Science

Origins of Modern Science

Similarly in these lectures we may try to examine various facets or aspects of what is called the scientific revolution; we shall not be able to measure the achievement at any given moment, however, if we merely pay attention to the new doctrines and take note of the emergence of the views that we now regard as right. It is necessary on each occasion to have a picture of the older systems the type of science that was to be overthrown.

By Herbert Butterfield

Sir Herbert Butterfield was an English historian and philosopher of history, who was Regius Professor of Modern History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered chiefly for a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and for his Origins of Modern Science (1949). Butterfield turned increasingly to historiography and man's developing view of the past. Butterfield was a devout Christian and reflected at length on Christian influences in historical perspectives.