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Ascent of Science.
This book is a report of the scientific campaign up to now. It is not a history of science but rather an account of the major battles, the frequently eccentric generals and the ways in which science has deeply influenced man's picture of the world and of himself. It is not a final summing-up. W...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Part One; 1. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong; 2. I Believe; Part Two; 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; Part Three; 8. Lodestone, Amber, and Lightning; 9. Belief and Action; Part Four; 10. The Demise of Alchemy; 11. The Nineteenth Century; 12. The Material Trinity: The Atom; 13. The Stuff of Existence; 14. Scipio's Dream; Part Five; 15. Making Waves; 16. The Ubiquity of Motion.
- 17. Energy18. Entropy: Intimations of Mortality; 19. Chaos; Part Six; 20. 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; Part Seven; 28. The Inexplicable Quantum; 29. New Ways of Thinking; 30. The Land of Paradox; 31. The Elementary Particles; Part Eight; 32. Relativity; 33. Cosmology; 34. The Cosmos and Peeping Tom; 35. The Impossibility of Creation; Part Nine; 36. The Tree of Death; 37. ""What the Devil Does It All Mean?""
- Part Ten38. The Future; Annotated Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.