The ascent of science
Title:
The ascent of science
Author:
Silver, Brian L.
ISBN:
9780198027690
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Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000, c1998.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 534 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong; 2. I Believe; 3. Thomas Aquinas versus Neil Armstrong; 4. The Second Law; 5. Predicting Catastrophe; 6. From Newton to De Sade: The Partial Triumph of Reason; 7. From Rousseau to Blake: The Revolt against Reason; 8. Lodestone, Amber, and Lightning; 9. Belief and Action; 10. The Demise of Alchemy; 11. The Nineteenth Century; 12. The Material Trinity: The Atom; 13. The Stuff of Existence; 14. Scipio's Dream; 15. Making Waves; 16. The Ubiquity of Motion; 17. Energy; 18. Entropy: Intimations of Mortality
Abstract:
The author provides a sweeping overview of the whole of Western science, from the Renaissance to the present. In it, he translates the most important, and often impenetrably obscure, scientific developments into a vernacular that aims to be accessible and illuminating.
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