The Scientific Revolution: Five Books about ItSteven Weinberg. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science. xiv + 417 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: HarperCollins, 2015. $28.99 .David Knight. Voyaging in Strange Seas: The Great Revolution in Science. viii + 329 pp., figs., index. New Haven, Conn./London: Yale University Press, 2014. $35 .William E. Burns. The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective. xv + 198 pp., illus., figs., tables, bibl., index. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. £16.99 .David Wootton. The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution. xiv + 769 pp., illus., figs., bibl., index. London: Penguin Books, Allen Lane, 2015. £20.40 .H. Floris Cohen. The Rise of Modern Science Explained: A Comparative History. vi + 296 pp., figs., tables, index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. $89.99 [Book Review]

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