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Science and Pseudoscience : A Conversation with Michael Gordin.
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. This thought-provoking, extensive conversation examines the strange case of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the bestselling...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Toronto] :
Open Agenda Publishing,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Ideas Roadshow conversations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. This thought-provoking, extensive conversation examines the strange case of Immanuel Velikovsky, author of the bestselling book ""Worlds in Collision"" that managed to provocatively combine unbridled scientific speculation with ancient myth, as a way of probing the often-problematic boundary between science and pseudoscience.By all accounts, Velikovsky was a decidedly curious character. The notorious Russian-born docto. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (63 p.). |
| ISBN: | 9781771700542 1771700548 1771702354 9781771702355 |