This week, squashing the unsquashable, the weird physics of high pressures.

They are not aware of any earlier reports of this type of effects.

And what exactly was revolutionary about the scientific revolution? A new book looks back on

the making of modern science. So for the first time you get the awareness that a lot of inherited knowledge is unreliable

and you can't trust anything unless it's been fundamentally tested.

Plus building a tabletop particle accelerator.

This is the Nature Podcast for August 27th, 2015.

I'm Adam Levy.

And I'm Kerry Smith.

As a Nature podcast listener, no doubt the scientific method is your bread and butter. Build a theory, make a prediction, and test. And so

knowledge grows and we gradually improve on our old assumptions. But do you ever wonder how these methods of modern

science came about? David Witten, a historian at the University of York, argues that science, as

we know it, was forged at the end of Europe's Renaissance, starting in around 1570. Over the

course of more than a century, scholars began to challenge old authorities

and even invented a new language of discovery.

David has summed up the revolution in a new book called The Invention of Science.

In it, he attempts to put to bed a 50-year debate.

Did the scientific revolution really give birth to modern science?

Reporter Lizzie Gibney first asked David where and when he thinks the revolution began.

1572 is the moment when Taiko Brahe and various other astronomers, Taito's the first,

see a new star in the sky.

It becomes extremely bright.

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