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200 10$aWhy science?$b[electronic resource] $eto know, to understand, and to rely on results /$fRoger G. Newton
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aHackensack, N.J. $cWorld Scientific$d2012
215   $a1 online resource (101 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a981-4397-33-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; 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
330   $aThis 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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