PositiveThe GuardianIt’s a familiar story to historians of science (and to most astronomers), but Sobel tells it with brio and sympathy, making excellent use of the rich archival materials preserved mostly at Harvard.
David Wootton
MixedThe GuardianThis makes for a big book, with some historiographical chapters (and appendices) that are unlikely to be of interest to readers who are not historians of science over the age of 50. At its core, however, are remarkable essays on the vocabulary of the age of discovery, including terms such as facts, experiments, laws, hypotheses, theories, evidence and judgment.
