The Creation of Explanatory Knowledge

Since the enlightenment, technological progress has depended specifically on the creation of explanatory knowledge. People had dreamed for millennia of flying to the moon, but it was only with the advent of newton's theories about the behavior of invisible entities such as forces and momentum that they began to understand what was needed in order to go there. This increasingly intimate connection between explaining the world and controlling it is no accident, but is part of a part of the deep structure of the world. V bought the book, you should buy it.