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The ascent of science.
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.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.