2. Scientific “World-Making” and Critical Braking

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note to the Reader ix
4. Preface 1
5. I. The Rite and Rights of a Separating Spring
6. 1. Newton’s Light 11
7. 2. Scientific “World-Making” and Critical Braking 21
8. 3. So Noble an Hecatombe: The Weight of Humanism 34
9. 4. The Mandate of Magister Medice: The Threat of Suppression 48
10. II. From Paradoxical Ages of Bacon to Swift Sweetness and Light
11. 5. The Dynasty of Dichotomy 69
12. 6. Reintegration in Triumphant Maturity 113
13. 7. Sweetness and Light as Tough and Healing Truth 144
14. III. A Saga of Pluribus and Unum
15. 8. The Fusions of Unum and the Benefits of Pluribus 155
16. 9. The False Path of Reductionism and the Consilience of Equal Regard 189
17. Epilog: A Closing Tale of Addition to Adagia by Erasure of Erasmus 261
18. Index 266