Thomas Levenson "Money for Nothing" (Random House, 2020)
New Books in Economics
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The Scientific Revolution
The scientific revolution is usually something we talk about in terms of the calculus and advances in physics. Back then, people turned their emerging tools of reason and empiricism onto any problems that came before them at the time. You have Isaac Newton trying to figure out how to meaningfully calculate what's underneath the curve. There's another figure you mentioned, William Petty, who does almost a mercenary survey of Ireland involving the Irish and English conflict. And that Edmund Halley also working on statistics about essentially life in a German village that leads to notions of risk.
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