The Day the Universe Changed

1. The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks

The Ancient Greece based origins of modern Western Civilization's primary val...

2. In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict - Faith and Reason

Introduction of the knowledge from captured Islamic Spanish libraries transfo...

3. Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance

The introduction of perspective techniques transforms Europe's use of art, ar...

4. A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge

The introduction of practical mass printing ends Europe's predominate relianc...

5. Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens

The Catholic Counter-Reformation inadvertently sparks the Scientific Revoluti...

7. What the Doctor Ordered: Social Impacts of New Medical Knowledge

The advance of modern medicine and public health comes at the cost of the fie...

8. Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution

The introduction of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution undermines the conce...

9. Making Waves: The New Physics - Newton Revised

As modern theoretical physics becomes more ambiguous in nature, the Western l...

10. Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality

James sums up his ideas about the effect of different worldviews on science b...