To explain the world : the discovery of modern science
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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
- Pre-eminent theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg offers a rich and irreverent history of science from a unique perspective - that of a scientist. Moving from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad to Oxford, and from the Museum of Alexandria to the Royal Society of London, he shows that the scientists of the past not only didn't understand what we understand about the world - they didn't understand what there is to understand. Yet eventually, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of tides, the modern discipline of science emerged
- Dewey number
- 509
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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