Provides An Overview Of Western Science From The Renaissance To The Present. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong -- I Believe -- Thomas Aquinas Versus Neil Armstrong -- The Second Law -- Predicting Catastrophe -- From Newton To De Sade: The Partial Triumph Of Reason -- From Rousseau To Blake : The Revolt Against Reason -- Lodestone, Amber, And Lightning -- Belief And Action -- The Demise Of Alchemy -- The Nineteenth Century -- The Material Trinity : The Atom -- The Stuff Of Existence -- Scipio's Dream -- Making Waves -- The Ubiquity Of Motion -- Energy -- Entropy : Intimations Of Mortality -- Chaos -- The Slow Birth Of Biology -- In A Monastery Garden -- Evolution -- The Descent Of Man -- The Gene Machine -- The Lords Of Nature? -- Life : The Molecular Battle -- The Origin Of Life? : Take Your Choice -- The Inexplicable Quantum -- New Ways Of Thinking -- The Land Of Paradox -- The Elementary Particles -- Relativity -- Cosmology -- The Cosmos And Peeping Tom -- The Impossibility Of Creation -- The Tree Of Death -- What The Devil Does It All Mean? -- The Future. Brian L. Silver. A Solomon Press Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [513]-518) And Index.
Categories:
- Science & Math
- History & Philosophy
- History of Science
- History & Philosophy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Author : Silver, Brian L.
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :1998-02-26
Number Of Pages : 534
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0195116992
ISBN-13 : 9780195116991
Item weight : 2.35 lb
Dimensions : 1.8 in x 7.8 in x 10.4 in
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