Book
The ascent of science
Record details
- OCLC: 36877343
- ISBN: 9780195116991
- ISBN: 0195116992 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xviii, 534 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
print - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Content descriptions
| Note: | "A Solomon Press book." |
| Bibliography: | 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. |
| Awards: | Listed in Choice Outstanding Academic Books, January 2000 |
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| Subject: | Science -- History Science -- Philosophy Thought and thinking -- History |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kinlaw Library | 303.483 S48a | 1990502671 | STACKS-AU | Available | - |