Research Catalog

Title

Physics and its fifth dimension: society.

Author

Schroeer, Dietrich.

Publication

Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. [1972]

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Details

Description

xvi, 378 pages illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Addison-Wesley series in physics

Uniform Title

Addison-Wesley series in physics

Subject

• Science and state
• Finance, Public > Québec (Province)
• Science > History
• 33.02 philosophy and theory of physics
• Science
• Finance, Public
• Science and state
• Natuurwetenschappen
• Sociale geschiedenis
• Québec

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

The two cultures -- The world we have lost -- The growth of science -- The scientific estate -- Myth, cosmology, and astrology -- The failure of Greek science -- Galileo and the scientific revolution -- The world as a clockwork mechanism -- Romanticism, physics, and Goethe -- Science and the industrial revolution -- Maxwell's demon, the heat death, and evolution -- X-rays and art -- The modern scientific revolution: Relativity and quantum mechanics -- The dating game -- Science and modern art -- Science and political ideologies -- The scientists go to war: building the atomic bomb -- The decision to dropt the atomic bomb -- nuclear medicine -- The hydrogen bomb and fallout -- Scientific heresy, secrecy, and politics -- The science pie, and how to split it -- Science and the university -- NASA: Man in space -- The ABM: The role of science advisors -- Cybernetics -- Physics and the future: Energy pollution.

ISBN

• 0201067676
• 9780201067675

LCCN

75184158

OCLC

• ocm00320582
• 320582
• SCSB-272944

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library