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The ascent of science

Title: The ascent of science / Brian L. Silver.
Author: Silver, Brian L.
Publication: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Description

xviii, 534 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Provides an overview of Western science from the Renaissance to the present.

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Genre/Form

History
History (form)

Note

"A Solomon Press book."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [513]-518) and index.

Contents

Newton gets it completely wrong -- I believe -- Thomas Aquinas versus Neil Armstrong -- The second law -- Predicting catastrophe -- From Newton to De Sade: the partial triumph of reason -- From Rousseau to Blake : the revolt against reason -- Lodestone, amber, and lightning -- Belief and action -- The demise of alchemy -- The nineteenth century -- The material trinity : the atom -- The stuff of existence -- Scipio's dream -- Making waves -- The ubiquity of motion -- Energy -- Entropy : intimations of mortality -- Chaos -- The slow birth of biology -- In a monastery garden -- Evolution -- The descent of man -- The gene machine -- The lords of nature? -- Life : the molecular battle -- The origin of life? : take your choice -- The inexplicable quantum -- New ways of thinking -- The land of paradox -- The elementary particles -- Relativity -- Cosmology -- The cosmos and peeping Tom -- The impossibility of creation -- The tree of death -- "What the devil does it all mean?" -- The future.

ISBN

0195116992
9780195116991

LCCN

97015430

OCLC

ocm36877343
36877343
SCSB-359680

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library