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UNINA9910462557303321 |
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Newton Roger G |
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Why science? [[electronic resource] ] : to know, to understand, and to rely on results / / Roger G. Newton |
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Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2012 |
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1-281-60365-1 |
9786613784346 |
981-4397-34-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (101 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Scientists |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Introduction; 1. We Want to Know; Looking at the Heavens; Exploratory Voyages; 2. We Want to Understand; Charles Darwin; Gregor Mendel; Louis Pasteur; Michael Faraday; Max Planck; Enrico Fermi; 3. Science; Chemistry as the Fundamental Science; How Physics Became Most Fundamental; On Reductionism; References and Further Reading; Illustration Credits; Index |
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This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity's desire to know and understand the world around us through the various stages of its development to the present, when science is almost universally recognized - at least in the Western world - as the most reliable way of knowing. The book describes the history of the large-scale exploration of the surface of the earth by sea, beginning with the Vikings and the Chinese, and of the unknown interiors of the American and African continents by foot and horseback. After the invention of the telescope, visual |
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UNISA996201325803316 |
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Autore |
Gellius |
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Attic Nights . Volume II Books 6-13 / / Gellius, J. C. Rolfe |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Harvard University Press, , 1927 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (576 pages) |
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Loeb classical library ; ; LCL200 |
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Latin letters - Translations into English |
Verse satire, Latin - Translations into English |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Aulus Gellius (ca. 123-170 CE) is known almost wholly from his Noctes Atticae, 'Attic Nights', so called because it was begun during the nights of an Attic winter. The work collects in twenty books (of Book VIII only the index is extant) interesting notes covering philosophy, history, biography, all sorts of antiquities, points of law, literary criticism, and lexicographic matters, explanations of old words and questions of grammar. The work is valuable because of its many excerpts from other authors whose works are lost; and because of its evidence for people's manners and occupations. Some at least of the dramatic settings may be genuine occasions. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Attic Nights is in three volumes. |
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