To explain the world : the discovery of modern science

The Resource To explain the world : the discovery of modern science

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To explain the world : the discovery of modern science

Title remainder

the discovery of modern science

Statement of responsibility

Steven Weinberg

Language

eng

Summary

"Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged"--Amazon.com
Presents a commentary on the history of science that examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing realms of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

509

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

Q124.95

LC item number

.W45 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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