books by Herbert Butterfield

books by Herbert Butterfield

books:

Herbert Butterfield

Herbert Butterfield

W. W. Norton & Company, 1965

Great Reading for History Grad Students
"The Whig Interpretation of History" is superb meditation on the craft of history and how it can be distorted by "whig history." This was how Herbert Butterfield described historians who project modern attitudes on to the past, pass moral judgments on historical ...

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (Arkana)

Arthur Koestler

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990

A Masterwork
Koestler has written a superb summary of the early history of science. The views expressed are certainly partial but it is almost impossible not to be transported by Koestler's prose into a world inhabited by Aristotle, Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler and Galileo. It is a ...

The Origins of Modern Science

Herbert Butterfield

Free Press, 1997

Arrogant? No way. Challenging? Yes, and revolutionary too
A previous reviewer called the thesis of this book - that the progress of science in Western society was the main historical current from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, to the point of relegating Renaissance and Reformation to the status of side issues - ...