Why science? : to know, to understand, and to rely on results / Roger G. Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Roger G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientists--Biography.

Scientists.

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.

Darwin, Charles.

Mendel, Gregor, 1822-1884.

Mendel, Gregor.

Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.

Pasteur, Louis.

Faraday, Michael, 1791-1867.

Faraday, Michael.

Planck, Max, 1858-1947.

Planck, Max.

Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.

Fermi, Enrico.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (101 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book aims to describe, for readers uneducated in science, the development of humanity's desire to know and understand the world around us through the various stages of its development to the present, when science is almost universally recognized - at least in the Western world - as the most reliable way of knowing. The book describes the history of the large-scale exploration of the surface of the earth by sea, beginning with the Vikings and the Chinese, and of the unknown interiors of the American and African continents by foot and horseback. After the invention of the telescope, visual

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. We Want to Know; Looking at the Heavens; Exploratory Voyages; 2. We Want to Understand; Charles Darwin; Gregor Mendel; Louis Pasteur; Michael Faraday; Max Planck; Enrico Fermi; 3. Science; Chemistry as the Fundamental Science; How Physics Became Most Fundamental; On Reductionism; References and Further Reading; Illustration Credits; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613784346

9781281603654

1281603651

9789814397346

9814397342

OCLC:

804661867