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The ascent of science / Brian L. Silver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silver, Brian L., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Discoveries in science.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 534p..: ill.; 26cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text is a sweeping, dynamic history of the whole of western science from the Renaissance to the present that translates the most profoundly important, and often impenetrably obscure, scientific developments.
- Contents:
- 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
- 19. Chaos20. The Slow Birth of Biology; 21. In a Monastery Garden; 22. Evolution; 23. The Descent of Man; 24. The Gene Machine; 25. The Lords of Nature?; 26. Life: The Molecular Battle; 27. The Origin of Life? Take Your Choice; 28. The Inexplicable Quantum; 29. New Ways of Thinking; 30. The Land of Paradox; 31. The Elementary Particles; 32. Relativity; 33. Cosmology; 34. The Cosmos and Peeping Tom; 35. The Impossibility of Creation; 36. The Tree of Death; 37. ""What the Devil Does It All Mean?""; 38. The Future; Annotated Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q
- RS; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-518) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-770022-5
- 0-19-028542-7
- 1-280-53083-9
- 0195116992
- 9786610530830
- 0-19-802769-9
- OCLC:
- 476026047
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