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To explain the world : the discovery of modern science

Title
  1. To explain the world : the discovery of modern science / Steven Weinberg.
Published by
  1. New York : Harper, [2015]
Author
  1. Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021

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Description
  1. xiv, 416 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "Weinberg takes us across centuries from ancient Miletus to medieval Baghdad and Oxford, from Plato's Academy and the Museum of Alexandria to the cathedral school of Chartres and the Royal Society of London. He shows that the scientists of ancient and medieval times not only did not understand what we understand about the world--they did not understand what there is to understand, or how to understand it. Yet over the centuries, through the struggle to solve such mysteries as the curious backward movement of the planets and the rise and fall of the tides, the modern discipline of science eventually emerged"--Amazon.com.
  2. Presents a commentary on the history of science that examines historic clashes and collaborations between science and the competing realms of religion, technology, poetry, mathematics, and philosophy.
Subject
  1. Science, Ancient
  2. Science > Greece > History
  3. Science, Medieval
  4. Science > History
  5. Science > Methodology > History
  6. SCIENCE > History
  7. SCIENCE > General
  8. HISTORY > General
  9. Science
  10. Science > Methodology
  11. Naturwissenschaften
  12. Astronomie
  13. Physik
  14. Erforschung
  15. Greece
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. Part I: Greek physics. Matter and poetry ; Music and mathematics ; Motion and philosophy ; Hellenistic physics and technology ; Ancient science and religion -- Part II: Greek astronomy. The uses of astronomy ; Measuring the sun, moon, and earth ; The problem of the planets -- Part III: The Middle Ages. The Arabs ; Medieval Europe -- Part IV: The scientific revolution. The solar system solved ; Experiments begun ; Method reconsidered ; The Newtonian synthesis ; Epilogue: the grand reduction.
Call number
  1. JSE 16-211
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-393) and index.
Author
  1. Weinberg, Steven, 1933-2021, author.
Title
  1. To explain the world : the discovery of modern science / Steven Weinberg.
Publisher
  1. New York : Harper, [2015]
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-393) and index.
LCCN
  1. 2014030253
Other standard identifier
  1. 40024709132
  2. 11825203
ISBN
  1. 0062346652 (hardcover)
  2. 9780062346650 (hardcover)
  3. 9780062346667 (paperback)
  4. 0062346660 (paperback)
Research call number
  1. JSE 16-211
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