Physics
A Short History. From Quintessence to Quarks
(Sprache: Englisch)
How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its...
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How does the physics we know today - a highly professionalised enterprise, inextricably linked to government and industry - link back to its origins as a liberal art in Ancient Greece? What is the path that leads from the old philosophy of nature and its concern with humankind's place in the universe to modern massive international projects that hunt down fundamental particles and industrial laboratories that manufacture marvels?John Heilbron's fascinating history of physics introduces us to Islamic astronomers and mathematicians, calculating the size of the earth whilst their caliphs conquered much of it; to medieval scholar-theologians investigating light; to Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton, measuring, and trying to explain, the universe. We visit the 'House of Wisdom' in 9th-century Baghdad; Europe's first universities; the courts of the Renaissance; the Scientific Revolution and the academies of the 18thcentury; the increasingly specialised world of 20th and 21st century science. Highlighting the shifting relationship between physics, philosophy, mathematics, and technology - and the implications for humankind's self-understanding - Heilbron explores the changing place and purpose of physics in the cultures and societies that have nurtured it over the centuries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Physics “
Introduction; 1 Invention and Diversity in Greece and Rome; 2 Selection and Development in Islam; 3 Domestication in the West; 4 A Second Creation; 5 Classical Physics and its Cure; 6 From Old World to New; 7 By Way of Conclusion; References and Further Reading; Index
Autoren-Porträt von John L. Heilbron
Professor John Heilbron of the University of California at Berkeley is one of the most distinguished scholars on the Scientific Revolution.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John L. Heilbron
- 2015, 256 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 13,6 x 20,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198746857
- ISBN-13: 9780198746850
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2015
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Englisch
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