The rise and fall of scientific authority – and how to bring it back

The Workshop and the World: What Ten Thinkers Can Teach Us About Science and Authority Robert P. Crease W. W. Norton (2019)

Hanging in the Louvre Museum in Paris is an imposing painting, The Preaching of St Paul at Ephesus. But, by the end of the century, European governments began recognizing the authority that Galileo sought to establish, supporting scientific academies, workshops and scientists. The authority of science rested on people, not on tools or methods or charts and data.

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