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Reason and wonder : a Copernican revolution in science and spirit / Dave Pruett.
LIBRA BL240.3 .P78 2012
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Van Pelt Library BL240.3 .P78 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pruett, Dave (Charles David)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science.
- Cosmology.
- Civilization--Forecasting.
- Civilization.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus, 1473-1543.
- Copernicus, Nicolaus.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2012]
- Summary:
- Pruett (mathematics, James Madison U., Virginia) traces seminal events in Western intellectual and scientific history that he believes have ushered in the dawn of a new awakening. His topics include the music of the spheres, the star-crossed prophet, Einstein's happiest thought, parallel universes, and the winds of change. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- The clockmaker and the clockwork
- The music of the spheres
- The starry messenger
- The star-crossed prophet
- The Jewish saint
- A wrinkle in time
- Einstein's happiest thought
- Lights all askew
- The entangled bank
- The time bomb
- Through the looking glass
- Parallel universes
- The arrows of time
- What is life?
- A world aflame
- The winds of change
- Pale images.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313399190
- 0313399190
- 9780313399206
- 0313399204
- OCLC:
- 745980497
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