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Are we entitled to say that the Earth is 4.55 billion years old, and its trajectory an ellipse centered on the Sun, with an average radius of 150 million kilometers? Most educated people today would say yes. Curiously, however, three hundred years after the century of Enlightenment, the fact that these assertions constitute what it is customary to call "scientific truths" is often perceived, especially by postmodernists, as naive, improper, or even (paradoxically) wrong. Against the fashionable relativist idea that science is no more than a socially constructed doxa, and reality nothing more than what we ourselves bring to it, this straightforward yet highly vigorous book rehabilitates a supposedly outdated, naively realist notion: scientific truth.
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“An excellent book of popular science, written in a straightforward, accessible style.” – Jean Bricmont, Le Monde Diplomatique
“Hubert Krivine’s book is not only a fascinating history of how humanity came to understand the age and motion of the Earth – it is also an object lesson in the philosophy of science, which will upset religious fundamentalists and extreme-social-constructivist sociologists in equal measure.” – Alan Sokal, Professor of Physics at New York University and Professor of Mathematics at University College London
“Clear and fascinating.” – La Quinzaine Litteraire
“A wonderful reflection on science.” – Mediapart
“Krivine’s new book should be read, distributed, and defended: it outlines — allowing only for the uncertainties of science inquiry — how we know what we know about the earth.” – Flavorwire
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“Hubert Krivine’s book is not only a fascinating history of how humanity came to understand the age and motion of the Earth – it is also an object lesson in the philosophy of science, which will upset religious fundamentalists and extreme-social-constructivist sociologists in equal measure.” – Alan Sokal, Professor of Physics at New York University and Professor of Mathematics at University College London
“Clear and fascinating.” – La Quinzaine Litteraire
“A wonderful reflection on science.” – Mediapart
“Krivine’s new book should be read, distributed, and defended: it outlines — allowing only for the uncertainties of science inquiry — how we know what we know about the earth.” – Flavorwire
Hubert Krivine is a physicist, retired professor, and researcher at the Laboratoire de physique nucleaire et des hautes energies. He is the author of several books on modern physics.
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