ISBN:
9780195116991
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (553 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Ascent of Science
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Silver, Brian L., 1930 - 1997 The ascent of science
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Science -- History
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Science -- Philosophy
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Thought and thinking -- History
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Science ; History
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Science ; Philosophy
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Thought and thinking ; History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Naturwissenschaften
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Philosophie
;
Geschichte
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
19. Chaos20. The Slow Birth of Biology; 21. In a Monastery Garden; 22. Evolution; 23. The Descent of Man; 24. The Gene Machine; 25. The Lords of Nature?; 26. Life: The Molecular Battle; 27. The Origin of Life? Take Your Choice; 28. The Inexplicable Quantum; 29. New Ways of Thinking; 30. The Land of Paradox; 31. The Elementary Particles; 32. Relativity; 33. Cosmology; 34. The Cosmos and Peeping Tom; 35. The Impossibility of Creation; 36. The Tree of Death; 37. "What the Devil Does It All Mean?"; 38. The Future; Annotated Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R
Description / Table of Contents:
ST; U; V; W; X; Y; Z;
Note:
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