The ascent of science [[electronic resource] /] / Brian L. Silver
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| Autore: |
Silver Brian L
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| Titolo: |
The ascent of science [[electronic resource] /] / Brian L. Silver
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (553 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science - History |
| Science - Philosophy | |
| Thought and thinking - History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; 1. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong; 2. I Believe; 3. Thomas Aquinas versus Neil Armstrong; 4. The Second Law; 5. Predicting Catastrophe; 6. From Newton to De Sade: The Partial Triumph of Reason; 7. From Rousseau to Blake: The Revolt against Reason; 8. Lodestone, Amber, and Lightning; 9. Belief and Action; 10. The Demise of Alchemy; 11. The Nineteenth Century; 12. The Material Trinity: The Atom; 13. The Stuff of Existence; 14. Scipio's Dream; 15. Making Waves; 16. The Ubiquity of Motion; 17. Energy; 18. Entropy: Intimations of Mortality |
| 19. Chaos20. The Slow Birth of Biology; 21. In a Monastery Garden; 22. Evolution; 23. The Descent of Man; 24. The Gene Machine; 25. The Lords of Nature?; 26. Life: The Molecular Battle; 27. The Origin of Life? Take Your Choice; 28. The Inexplicable Quantum; 29. New Ways of Thinking; 30. The Land of Paradox; 31. The Elementary Particles; 32. Relativity; 33. Cosmology; 34. The Cosmos and Peeping Tom; 35. The Impossibility of Creation; 36. The Tree of Death; 37. ""What the Devil Does It All Mean?""; 38. The Future; Annotated Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q | |
| RS; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The author provides a sweeping overview of the whole of Western science, from the Renaissance to the present. In it, he translates the most important, and often impenetrably obscure, scientific developments into a vernacular that aims to be accessible and illuminating. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The ascent of science |
| ISBN: | 0-19-770022-5 |
| 0-19-028542-7 | |
| 1-280-53083-9 | |
| 9786610530830 | |
| 0-19-802769-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812801503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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