02582nam 2200577 a 450 991046255730332120200520144314.01-281-60365-19786613784346981-4397-34-2(CKB)2670000000230183(EBL)982507(OCoLC)804661867(SSID)ssj0000739833(PQKBManifestationID)12307520(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000739833(PQKBWorkID)10697828(PQKB)10360303(MiAaPQ)EBC982507(WSP)00002717(Au-PeEL)EBL982507(CaPaEBR)ebr10583610(CaONFJC)MIL378434(EXLCZ)99267000000023018320120808d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhy science?[electronic resource] to know, to understand, and to rely on results /Roger G. NewtonHackensack, N.J. World Scientific20121 online resource (101 p.)Description based upon print version of record.981-4397-33-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 ScientistsBiographyElectronic books.Scientists507.1509Newton Roger G45677MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462557303321Why science2473367UNINA